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Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
- ▶ 36:20 Nirav Tolia Rich Barton, the creator of Expedia, and then more recently Zillow.
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 15:51 Guy Raz You couldn't go to Expedia or anything.
- ▶ 29:45 Guy Raz I mean, I remember Expedia. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:34 Guy Raz Um, and, and, and meantime, I mean, you had originally done sort of this white label thing for Expedia, but from what I understand, Expedia pretty soon after just kind of started their own thing, similar, similar, uh, offering, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:42 Rod Cuthbert There were people selling it, like Expedia and Travelocity and others were selling tours,
HIBT Lab! Landed: Alex Lofton
Tripadvisor: Steve Kaufer
- ▶ 2:43 Guy Raz And then try and sell that information to other websites like Expedia and Yahoo.
- ▶ 12:05 Steve Kaufer And, you know, Expedia had, you know, just launched maybe a couple of years earlier.
- ▶ 14:45 Steve Kaufer So a client could be Yahoo travel or Expedia or American airlines or any of the other folks that
- ▶ 30:42 Steve Kaufer And if you clicked on that link, we sent you to the Marriott marquee page on Expedia. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:08 Guy Raz I mean, I think in, in, you know, shortly after September 11th, 2001, when you received 500 dollars from Lycos, when you were really on the ropes, you, you kind of took this Hail Mary approach and came to an agreement with Expedia to get…
- ▶ 44:59 Guy Raz I mean, we're, we're, we're sending all these people to Expedia, and to Travelocity, and Priceline, and whatever's out there.
- ▶ 1:00:23 Guy Raz So you now are founder, CEO, running TripAdvisor within Expedia, and, and thus begins, I, I think it's an understatement to say, a, a, a rapid, not rapid, a, a long march of acquisitions.
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
- ▶ 54:35 Leah Solivan Uh, he was one of the early guys at hotwire.com, a hundred million dollar business, uh, had sold to Expedia, referenced very well, and, and I mean, is an amazing human being.
HIBT Lab! ClassPass: Payal Kadakia
KAYAK: Paul English
- ▶ 35:39 Paul English Yeah, back in 2000, this was the end of 2003 at this point, and the big travel websites back then was Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity, and Priceline. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:05 Paul English I spent probably 10 minutes on Expedia just to see what the market leader looked like, to remind myself, and I thought, this is not going to be hard to beat this, because to me, Expedia was epileptic, seizure-inducing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:48 Guy Raz Now, you guys had some working capital because you got investment money, but you were, you were, you were like a nobody in a, and among giants like Priceline, Expedia, Orbitz. 3 times in the scene
Live From The HIBT Summit: Gary Vaynerchuk
Expedia & Zillow: Rich Barton
- ▶ 0:45 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how Rich Barton's many frustrations with booking travel and buying real estate led to two startups that transformed those industries forever, Expedia and Zillow.
- ▶ 2:43 Guy Raz And Rich wanted everyone to have access, so he came up with what would become Expedia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:05 Guy Raz When you launched Expedia in 1996, what was the public response to it? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:47 Guy Raz Microsoft spun out Expedia as a public company in, in 1999, and, uh, and you became the CEO, still pretty young, um, of a public company at the time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:31 Rich Barton And so in order to stay out of my wife's hair, I took an office with an ex Expedia, early Microsoft Stanford friend of mine, Lloyd Frank.
- ▶ 23:30 Guy Raz And was your, were you starting to think, because I'm thinking if I'm, you and Lloyd, you'd worked on Expedia.
- ▶ 29:13 Rich Barton We both had resources from Expedia and Microsoft.
- ▶ 29:28 Guy Raz Alright, so from what I understand, you recruited a pretty high-level team that you'd worked with at Microsoft and then at Expedia, but a year, like almost a year into this Zillow venture, like, you really, you weren't really kind of going…
- ▶ 47:20 Rich Barton I've always liked to do lots of things, and we had just such a great, the kind of Microsoft slash Expedia diaspora was such a talented group of people that I loved, and one of those great people, Robert Homan, who had been a development… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:46 Guy Raz Like, when you had Expedia, there were lots of, um, travel agents who were mad about it.
- ▶ 1:00:00 Rich Barton When we sold Expedia, we created a family foundation, so this was a long time ago.
Policygenius: Jennifer Fitzgerald
- ▶ 4:24 Guy Raz When Jennifer and Francois initially tried to convince investors that people would want to buy insurance the same way they buy airline tickets on sites like Expedia and Kayak, there was very little interest.
- ▶ 27:01 Guy Raz Is it fair to say that you were, you were thinking, hey, this could be like Expedia, but for insurance, like, you know, something where you could just go and, you know, find a bunch of different competing policies?
- ▶ 38:01 Guy Raz Let's say the Expedia for insurance. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:13 Jennifer Fitzgerald You go to Expedia,
- ▶ 1:08:50 Guy Raz I mean, you're an agent, so you get a commission when you sell insurance, like, like Expedia gets a commission when they sell an airline ticket. 3 times in the scene
Zocdoc: Oliver Kharraz
- ▶ 19:54 Oliver Kharraz If you imagine if air travel worked the way that healthcare works, there wouldn't be an Expedia.