Khurram Iqbal is the founder of Llivo, a US-based vacation rental marketplace built around two principles missing from the dominant platforms: bundled airport pickup as a core feature, and zero guest service fees on every booking. He started Llivo after years of watching the short-term rental industry drift further from the hospitality values that made it work in the first place — replacing real host relationships with algorithmic matching, transparent pricing with hidden fees, and traveler experience with friction at every step. His background spans IT leadership, large-scale platform consolidation and modernization, creative content development, and a previous career as a professor of English language and literature — a combination that informs both how Llivo is built and how he comm...