Metamind (Takeofftrip.Com)

Our office is located at 9-84 in Venkateshwara Nagar, which is part of the Malkajgiri area in Hyderabad. If you know the neighborhood, you know it is a regular residential spot with a lot of small shops. We run our travel site, Takeofftrip.Com, from this building. It is mostly just us at our computers, looking up flights and hotels for people who want to go somewhere new. We do not have a big fancy sign or a glass front; it is just a normal place where we work every day. People from around Malkajgiri sometimes drop by to ask questions about their tickets, and we just talk to them like neighbors. The walls are a bit plain and we have stacks of papers everywhere, but we know where everything is. It is a bit of a trek to get here from the main parts of the city, but we like the quiet of Venkateshwara Nagar. We are not some massive travel company with thousands of employees. It is just a handful of us trying to make the website work and helping folks with their plans. Sometimes the phones do not stop ringing and other times it is completely silent. We do not have a set script for how we talk to people; we just try to be honest and tell them what we know. It is a practical way to run a business. We spend a lot of time double-checking dates and prices.