016: Creating the Right Place and Time: How Embracing the Future Can Lead You to Success with Randy Smith

The Real Jason Duncan Podcast · Jun 17, 2021 · 1h

Randy Smith, the chairman and co-founder of STR, is living proof that any plan can be executed with enough passion, endurance, and awareness of the world outside around you. Having started with only a couple of pre-internet desktop computers in 1985, Smith, and his late wife, Carolyn, founded STR as a two-person, U.S. hotel census company which now employs 350 people in 15 countries. Smith is a member and past co-chairman of IREFAC as well as a former vice-chair of the American Hotel & Lodging Foundation Funding Committee. He is a charter member of ISHC and a former member of its board of…