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▶ 19:24 Ben Gilbert 13 years, you have a pretty wild competition with Booking.com, and I think you learn a lot of lessons from watching Booking just crush it.
▶ 19:40 Ben Gilbert Booking built a hell of a company.
▶ 19:53 Dara Khosrowshahi Booking was an execution machine, and their focus, when we talked about focus, was hotels, hotels, hotels, and Expedia was much more, it started with air, right, and hotels was to some extent secondary, and so I think one of the lessons is…
▶ 20:42 Dara Khosrowshahi Booking was more supply-led.
▶ 20:44 David Rosenthal Especially in the States, nobody knew what booking was.
▶ 22:02 Dara Khosrowshahi Was because we really focused on bringing those drivers back to the platform, building our service, et cetera, and it was a supply led way of building the business, which definitely was a learning that I took from Booking.com.
▶ 22:14 David Rosenthal With booking, you can build a market, ah, of it, say, geography for hotels, and then use that to build a vertical.
▶ 24:02 David Rosenthal And I'm curious, maybe you talked about booking being execution machines.
▶ 1:26:49 Dara Khosrowshahi Like talking about booking.com and one thing that we learned,
▶ 1:26:52 Dara Khosrowshahi When I started Expedia, Expedia's take rate was 25%, and Booking's take rate was 15.

▶ 1:21:24 David Rosenthal Like Airbnb has so much unique supply that you're not going to find on booking.com or HomeAway or any other platform.

▶ 43:52 Ben Gilbert Which of course became booking after it later bought booking and booking.
▶ 43:56 Brad Gerstner I bought booking in 2004, 2005.
▶ 57:57 Brad Gerstner Booking.com was a vertical search company.

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