Abhinav Kumar

Background and experience

Abhinav Kumar founded Tripixo. Tripixo lets travel creators charge for the trip-planning advice they already give away free in comments and DMs.

Before Tripixo, Abhinav spent years as the on-camera face of Trivago's advertising campaigns in India. The role made him a recognized name in Indian online advertising and put him in front of a national audience. He then led product marketing at Paytm, working on performance marketing, brand building, and distribution. In short, he spent years learning how to make people trust a recommendation enough to act on it.

That background, plus years of watching how travel creators actually earn money from their audience, led him to start Tripixo. His view is simple: a model that has only read about a place cannot match the judgment of someone who has actually been there. As AI trip planners multiply, that judgment gets rarer and more valuable, and it should be priced like it.

On the Tripixo blog, Abhinav writes about the travel creator economy, why AI cannot replace real travel judgment, and how creators can turn their advice into a paid, bookable service instead of just an affiliate link.