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“I'm willing to bet That business travel will grow in twenty-twenty-one. Not based on twenty-twenty, based on twenty-nineteen.”

“I believe that Tesla will be a trillion dollar company.”

“We probably will be the number one business travel platform globally in the next five years.”

“Flattening the curve means that the surface below the curve still is the same. You just delay. If you're going to get it, you're still going to get it. You just want to catch it when ICU beds are available and there's a ventilator waiting for you if you need o…”

“But we actually grew very, very well multiples year and year in Q-one, right, in revenue. So Q-one was an amazing quarter for us in growth, even though we had, of course, not so great March.”

“Rail will be bigger than flights, at least by the number of bookings, because it's just more convenient to travel domestically, in many cases, in train versus flight.”

“First money into travel company, probably dead for a while.”

“We do talk, and something for investors to note, I think, is everybody knows it, but I think it's important to remind everybody that we talk between us, right? Don't screw entrepreneurs because everybody will know, right?”

“I heard stories about investors who are, of course, board members as well, who kill deals, kill fundraising deals, or M&A, just to maximize, and it's not even material, like, just, you know, because they don't like not getting everything.”

“One is we have the biggest bookable inventory in the world. So we did some really cool hacks, technically, that allow us to sell Every flight, every hotel in the best prices you can find online or offline also.”

“As I said, it's going to end, and people will go back to traveling, and I don't want to lose 12 months after lockdowns are lifted in rebuilding the capacity, rebuilding the muscle that we have lost if we went and did too deep of a cut.”

“Domestic travel will emerge faster and sooner than international travel.”

“Travelpeak is the last company I'm going to work for.”

“We are the only free platform, the only free solution in business travel.”

“We're doing 10 X year and year at the moment.”

“Booking.com out of you know, a lot, many thousands of full-time employees, around 70 or 80% of them are in customer support.”

“We're talking about demand going probably, and I'm being generous here. Probably below five percent globally for travel right now. Some areas just zero, right?”

“Hotels would typically pay 15 to 20%.”

“Then you turn your look to business travel, which is the same size of leisure, right? So there are roughly fifty-fifty of the total market globally. And then you have a 1.5 trillion problem that nobody's trying to solve”

“Most of the leads, most of the accounts we have, probably over 90% are coming inbound.”

“Yeah, between the numbers you said.”