Booking.com
4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 23, 2020 by Sarah Tavel · said 42 times in 20 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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2026 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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2024 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Nilan Peiris: What Growth Hacks Worked and What Did Not, from Wise CPO | E1182 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2020 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Chasing GMV Will Lead To The Wrong Direction, The 2 Crucial Tipping Points For Marketplace Adoption, Why UGC Plays Are Like Marketplaces & How To Determine Between Existential and Non-Existential Risk
- 20VC: TravelPerk's Avi Meir on Why 2021 Will Be A Record Year For Business Travel, The 3 Priorities For All Founders During COVID, What VCs Can Do To Really Support Their Founders In A Recession
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2019 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: How Founders Can Really Get The Most Out of Their Board, Why Culture Fit At The Board Level Is Not Discussed Enough & Why Growth and Culture Are 2 Sides of The Same Coin with Avi Meir, Founder & CEO @ TravelPerk
- 20VC: Why Portfolio Construction Is Inefficient, Why The Only Thing That Matters In Venture Is Pricing & The Future of Venture; Bundled or Unbundled with Zach Coelius
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2018 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Lessons From 2x $Bn Exits in Trulia and lastminute.com, 3 Leading Indicators That Suggest Potential Marketplace Success & Why We Are Going To See A Fundamental Change To The World of VC with Pete Flint, Managing Partner @ NFX
- 20VC: Why, How and When To Think About Growth Teams, The Right Way To Think About Network Effects & Scaling from Phase 1 To Phase 2 of Startup Life with Anu Hariharan, Partner @ YC Continuity Fund
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2016 1 mention in 1 episode
2015 3 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Booking.com, oldest first
Nov 23, 2020 positive
Tavel: Booking.com leapfrogged Expedia by offering lower take rates to small hotels
“Booking.com came in with a different structure to their marketplace and that let them have a far lower take than the incumbents at the time, which let them bring on small hotels. Which couldn't afford the higher take rate of the other marketplaces that were ar…”
Jun 23, 2025 negative
Jun 23, 2025
Jun 8, 2026 bullish
Chernin: Enterprise AI adoption will explode once evaluation cold-start issues resolve
“And I think we'll see a lot of explosive growth in enterprises, in the digital, including like in the cloud companies, in the cloud native companies like Revolut, Shopify, Prosus. Booking.com. When they solve this cold start problem, they build the system, how…”