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▶ 1:50:23 Ben Gilbert Rich famously started Expedia by spinning that out of Microsoft and then started Zillow where Benchmark was an investor and Rich for a long time was a venture partner with

▶ 39:55 Ben Gilbert This is the Rich Barton story with Expedia.
▶ 40:08 Ben Gilbert The way Expedia ended up happening is Rich basically said, hey, this online travel agency thing needs to happen.

▶ 2:28 Ben Gilbert He led the SPAC that took Grab public in Southeast Asia, and he is widely known as one of the most knowledgeable people in the world on the business of online travel after his involvement in Expedia, Orbitz, Uber, and many others.
▶ 23:40 Brad Gerstner Uh, that would power Expedia, Travelocity, Yahoo, others who were selling travel.
▶ 24:33 Brad Gerstner So, Expedia launches, you know, a cruise or a vacation package booking engine, and the next day a lot of people are actually buying it, and we're kind of the Shopify, if you will, inside.
▶ 24:43 Brad Gerstner And so, Rich Barton, who ran Expedia, said, hey, we want to buy the business.
▶ 24:57 Ben Gilbert And to be clear, this is pre IAC buying Expedia.
▶ 25:26 Brad Gerstner Between, um, October of 2000 and May of 2001, uh, we put together a deal where USA Networks would be renamed IAC, bought both NLG, uh, and Expedia.
▶ 37:50 Brad Gerstner And, you know, Jay had a relationship with Rich from his days at Expedia.
▶ 38:03 Brad Gerstner It was a special collection of people out of Expedia led by Rich and Lloyd.
▶ 56:32 Ben Gilbert And so, you know, you've got Expedia, you've got Priceline.
▶ 1:00:14 Ben Gilbert It's famously hard to start an OTA these days, because what, you're gonna compete against Expedia, bidding on the traffic from Google?

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