Expedia
company on 9 shows · 8 statements across 6 episodes · said 56 times in 17 episodes since 2010
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Diller predicts fully agentic AI doing work for users within a year
“It is more than likely that within a year, but I don't say that, I mean, I think it really is probably truly within a year or so, you really will be able to have a conversation, agentic, this new word, where
An agent does work for you.
We'll know so much about…”
Diller: LLMs cannot easily replicate Expedia's deep consumer travel planning capabilities
“I think from what I know now, it is not easy today for anyone else to do that other than our competitors can do that today. But it's not easy for any large language model or any Modality that, that I know of.”
Srinivas: Google's ad model disincentivizes providing direct search answers
“If you get direct answers to these questions with booking links right there, how are you going to mint money from booking and Expedia and Kayak and like, you know, all like same, same, same thing for shopping. How are you going to take money from Amazon and li…”
Winters: Expedia and Booking make most revenue from hotels
“So you see with the Expedia's of the world, the bookings of the world, they actually make most of their money off hotels where there's a lot more variety and a lot more fragmentation.”
Khosrowshahi: IAC closed Expedia acquisition post-9/11 with zero deal changes
“No changes to the deal. It's like, we're gonna do this.”
Khosrowshahi lowered Expedia's take rates from 25% to 17%
“When I started Expedia, Expedia's take rate was 25%, and Booking's take rate was 15. And over, like, a torturous 13 years, we took Expedia's take rate from 25% to the teens. It was, like, 17, I think, or so when I left.”
Gerstner: USA Networks acquired NLG and Expedia concurrently in 2000–2001
“Between October of 2000 and May of 2001 we put together a deal where USA Networks would be renamed IAC, bought both NLG and Expedia.”