Expedia, every mention

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired Jun 13, 2023 · 20 mentions

• ▶ 2:23 Ben Gilbert So this is a candid conversation that dives into moments like buying Expedia right when night 11 happened, how he first met Barry Diller at Allen & Company, and what the financial mechanics are actually like of replacing Uber's entire…
• ▶ 3:36 Ben Gilbert Appreciate you, uh, swinging by the home studio on your way home from Expedia board meeting.
• ▶ 3:49 Ben Gilbert Actually, Expedia is a good place to start.
• ▶ 3:51 Ben Gilbert For folks who don't know about your pre-Uber background, you were the CEO of Expedia from 2000 and four to 20 17.
• ▶ 4:14 Ben Gilbert In Expedia, you took it private.
• ▶ 4:17 Ben Gilbert It was at Microsoft with Rich Barton.
• ▶ 4:18 Ben Gilbert He spun it out.
• ▶ 4:19 Ben Gilbert It went public.
• ▶ 4:20 Ben Gilbert You made a bid to take it private.
• ▶ 4:32 Dara Khosrowshahi and we bought Microsoft controlling stake and Expedia was a public company, but we had a control position.
• ▶ 4:51 Ben Gilbert The term sheet was signed for IAC to buy Expedia
• ▶ 6:12 Dara Khosrowshahi I can't imagine that if you're at the company, everyone's like, what's
• ▶ 6:18 Dara Khosrowshahi Companies thrive on certainty, on kind of rhythm, et cetera, and it was a tough macro position to be in, and then the micro position of what's going to happen at Expedia.
• ▶ 19:19 Ben Gilbert All right, so we're gonna catch back up to that Expedia era.
• ▶ 19:42 Ben Gilbert When you're on the Expedia side of things,
• ▶ 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…
• ▶ 20:35 Dara Khosrowshahi The other area was that Expedia was probably more focused on building demand, kind of consumer demand, brand, et cetera.
• ▶ 35:29 David Rosenthal How has the complexity of Uber relative to Expedia matched up with your expectations coming in?
• ▶ 35:52 Dara Khosrowshahi It is like Expedia, travel agency, you're bringing demand to your supply base, et cetera.
• ▶ 36:07 David Rosenthal And also Expedia, you weren't providing the service.