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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Kayak comes up
HIBT Lab! ClassPass: Payal Kadakia
KAYAK: Paul English
- ▶ 0:41 Paul English Ultimately, her team came up with a list of about a hundred names, and kayak was actually our second choice. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a totally chance meeting in a Boston restaurant led Paul English to launch his fifth business, Kayak, and how he and his partner grew it into a popular travel site, then sold it for nearly two… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:26 Guy Raz Why don't we come back in just a moment how Paul founded and then sold his first major company, and then how a chance meeting and a couple of gin and tonics led him to an even bigger business, Kayak.
- ▶ 39:55 Paul English And he was just, I think he was joking a little bit, but anyway, General Catalyst put in five million, Steve put in a million, I put in a million, and then we started Kayak, and the middle, the middle thing we did, immediate thing we did… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:28 Guy Raz The name Kayak, what's up with that name? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:08 Guy Raz So it's 2004, and Paul and Steve have just come up with seven million dollars, a small team of engineers, and a name for their new travel website, Kayak. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:35 Guy Raz You would take the data, presumably, like you would take the data of people booking through Kayak and go to the Deltas, the Americans, the Hilton Hotels of Marriott and say, look, we can show you how people are already going to your site… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:17 Paul English One of the biggest milestones in the history of kayak is when you went to Google and you typed the letter 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:33 Guy Raz This insight that you had, because I think you, previous companies that you had started, I would, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the back-end technology was probably more complex than, than it was for Kayak, that actually… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:58 Guy Raz In July of 2012, Kayak went public. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:13 Guy Raz In the middle of Kayak, you launched a new company, co-founded a new company called GetHuman, which is still around, I think. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:53 Guy Raz Then you step down from Kayak and you start to do some teaching at MIT and RISD and a few other places at Harvard Business School.
- ▶ 1:08:33 Paul English Um, Kayak was tremendous luck. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:30 Guy Raz That's Paul English, occasional Uber driver, and founder or co-founder of, among other things, Kayak, Lola.com, Moonbeam, Intermute, Get Human, Speed Games, Boston Light Software, and the online Chinese chess site, ShangChi.com.
Live From The HIBT Summit: Gary Vaynerchuk
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.
- ▶ 39:30 Guy Raz I mean, it sounds like a really great idea, of course, from, from, from a twenty-twenty-one perspective, but even in 2014, like, Expedia, kayak, people are using that.
- ▶ 1:08:59 Guy Raz You don't like the comparison with Kayak or Expedia. 2 times in the scene