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Brent Hoberman regrets passing on acquiring Booking.com at the seed stage
“I made one pivotal mistake at last minute.com. I had the opportunity to buy booking.com at the time as a seed stage company. I still regret that to the present day.”
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…”
Former Booking.com CEO Kees Koolen invested $1M in GetYourGuide
“I'm going to come on board. Like I'm joining a board of directors and I'm going to personally invest a million bucks in the company.”
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…”