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Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 15, 2026 · 2 mentions

Nebius Co-Founder on AI Infrastructure Bubbles | How Price Elastic is Demand for Compute · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 8, 2026 · 1 mention

20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader Sep 5, 2025 · 3 mentions

GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 23, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 13:02 Johannes Reck I had the opportunity to buy booking.com at the time as a seed stage company.
  • ▶ 21:38 Johannes Reck and he said, you know, here's Case Kolan, and I obviously knew him because he was the founder and CEO of Booking.com. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:03 Johannes Reck So that was really the core lesson from case and booking.com was don't do too much. 2 times in the scene

David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 14, 2024 · 1 mention

Nilan Peiris: What Growth Hacks Worked and What Did Not, from Wise CPO | E1182 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:52 Nilan Peiris So in businesses I've built previously, and just some of the people say that buildbooking.com or Zalando or some of the early rocket guys, it was always around, um, when you're advertising, say you're advertising, um, on SEM, on search…

Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:08:30 Alex Taussig Something like 18% of revenues on marketing, whereas bookings and Expedia spend 30%, and that's because they have unique inventory.

Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 27, 2023 · 1 mention

Jennifer Hyman: Rent The Runway's Journey to $1.7B IPO; Lessons from Beyoncé & Estée Lauder | E1031 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 28, 2023 · 1 mention

Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 28, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 30:00 Miki Kuusi He was the CEO of Booking.com from a like a 20 person company to like one of the biggest, I think the biggest consumer software company out of Europe. 2 times in the scene

Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 10, 2022 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 13:34 Brad Gerstner So seeing through that lens, Airbnb, which was making sense out of all the world's long tail inventory, right, in the way that Craigslist had done, for all properties that were not on bookie.com, like it actually fit, it wasn't a new…
  • ▶ 17:24 Brad Gerstner Uh, it was clear to us that booking.com. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:39 Brad Gerstner And if you are, right, if I find a company where I have a level of conviction, like I did in Booking.com and Priceline in 2004, Google in 2005 or Snowflake,
  • ▶ 1:20:02 Brad Gerstner Booking.com price line from one billion to a hundred billion.

20Growth: Five Key Functions of a Growth Team, The Biggest Lessons Starting Uber's Growth Team and Scaling Facebook's, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth and What Separates Good From Great in Growth Leaders with Ed Baker, Former VP of Growth @ Feb 16, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:27 Ed Baker I've also seen an example of a company, I remember one of the founders of booking.com said to me, what's the point of a product team?

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 Nov 23, 2020 · 3 mentions

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 May 29, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Prior to founding Travel Perk, Avi co-founded Hotel Ninjas, a hotel management product that was acquired by Booking.com.
  • ▶ 3:39 Avi Meir We sold that business to Booking.com back in 2014. 2 times in the scene

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 Jun 3, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:32 Zach Coelius And the moment we did that, suddenly, Walmart, Best Buy, HomeDevo, Booking.com, TripAdvisor, all these amazing companies suddenly became our customers overnight.

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 Jan 11, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 4:34 Avi Meir We ran Hotel Ninjas for a couple of years, and we sold it to Booking.com. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:50 Harry Stebbings I do have to pick up on one thread that you mentioned there, though, and it was the founding for you of Hotel Ninjas and then selling to Booking.com.

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 Jul 9, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:26 Pete Flint I guess the biggest wrong thing, I think, you know, history is a great guide, and you look at the online travel space in Europe, and you look at booking.com, whose parent companies were something like a hundred billion dollars, and, you… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:45 Pete Flint You look at travel, you think of booking.com, you think of Expedia, all really built out of the first dot-com collapse in nine 11.

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 Mar 5, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:17 Anu Hariharan Searching on your site, and if that number is in line with the median retention of other travel companies like TripAdvisor or Booking.com, and you have the luxury of getting this data these days, then you know that you have a good…

20VC: Why VC Is The Perfect Preparation For Founding A Startup & Changing The World Of Online Fashion with Chris Morton, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lyst May 6, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:26 Chris Morton So it's kind of like what Spotify do for music, what Netflix has done for content, maybe what, what you look in, in, in, in travel, maybe what booking.com do as well.

20 VC 011: London's Early Stage Funding Scene with Thomas Jones Feb 9, 2015 · 3 mentions

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