Brooks Laich’s World Playground Is Taking a Hard Pass on Travel Markups

Brooks Laich is back in the mix, and this time he is not selling you on a locker-room speech or a highlight reel. His company, World Playground, is going after travel booking with direct access to wholesale prices, which is the kind of pitch that makes the usual middlemen sweat. The idea is simple enough to sound obvious after the fact, but the real game is whether consumers buy into a model that cuts deeper than the standard commission shuffle.