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Hussein Fazal on the TechTO stage

Hussein Fazal

Co-founder & CEO, Super.com

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Toronto-born repeat founder: bootstrapped AdParlor to an exit, then co-founded SnapTravel to sell hotel rooms over chat and rebranded it as Super.com — a savings super app (travel deals, cash-back card, credit building) for the everyday American. Waterloo CS grad, backed by Steph Curry, $1B+ in sales, relentless about talking to customers.

On the TechTO stage ×7

First seen on the TechTO stage in 2015. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Hussein

In their words

The best way to look like you don't need the money is to actually not need the money.

TechTO, Nov 2019 · watch at 01:28

We booked our first 100 hotels completely manually, without a single line of code, on our personal cell phones and our personal laptops.

TechTO, Apr 2023 · watch at 12:16

The advice I give to every single entrepreneur, regardless of what business they're trying to break into — and it's the most obvious thing ever — is talk to customers. The number one thing you can always do is talk to customers and try and fill a gap.

TechTO, May 2020 · watch at 10:45

we would buy ads and specifically target Facebook employees so on facebook you can target by employer so we would buy ad on facebook to target Facebook employees

TechTO, Jul 2015 · watch at 04:18

there's always small pockets where you can win — these guys are going for a lot of scale a lot of volume they're bidding super high so what a lower volume or in certain pockets we can win on Adwords

TechTO, Apr 2018 · watch at 03:59

a lot of it was just the right business at the right time

TechTO, Jan 2024 · watch at 03:49

once I kind of decided on that, then it was not what do I do? It's like, who do I do it with? Because I think a co-founder is so key and critical.

TechTO, Jan 2024 · watch at 07:50

I just knew I wanted to go through the journey one more time and I wanted to be an entrepreneur one more time, way too early to retire.

TechTO, Jan 2024 · watch at 08:01

once people start using it and they see they get you know the best price they can find online they see they get great customer service our human agents call in and get you a free up and message you to say you got an upgrade the recommendations are spot-on

TechTO, Aug 2017 · watch at 08:19

you can sit on your couch you can use Alexa or Google to initiate the search and then when you have some time you can pick up your phone look at pictures look up reviews and then complete the transaction

TechTO, Aug 2017 · watch at 05:08
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Quick answers

How did SnapTravel become Super.com?

SnapTravel began as hotel booking over messaging. The data showed customers booking 2.5–3-star hotels, ~60% paying with debit cards — people who needed to save. So it rebranded as Super.com, a savings super app: travel deals, shopping savings, and the Super Cash MasterCard for cash back and credit building. By April 2023: ~250 people and over $1B in sales.

How did he get his first 100 customers without writing code?

He and his co-founder put up a landing page, bought ads, and had interested users text Hussein's personal cell phone. They manually hunted deals, sent pictures and prices, and booked the rooms themselves — the first 100 hotels booked entirely by hand before a single line of code.

What did he do before Super, and who invested?

A Waterloo computer science grad, he founded AdParlor — a bootstrapped Facebook ad-optimization company — and sold it to Adknowledge. SnapTravel raised an $8M US Series A in 2017 and over $20M by late 2019, from investors including iNovia, Telstra Ventures, and Steph Curry.

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