Booking.com
2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 27, 2023 by Ronny Kohavi · said 24 times in 20 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (14), Tal Raviv (3), Casey Winters (2), Aishwarya Reganti (Ash) (2), Ronny Kohavi (1), Mayur Kamat (1), Brian Chesky (1)
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2026 8 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
- OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
- “I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
- We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 7 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo
- $46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)
- How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
- How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
- Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
- Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2023 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Grubhub)
- Brian Chesky’s new playbook
- The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon)
- Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
Everything said about Booking.com, oldest first
Jul 27, 2023 neutral
Airbnb's experiment failure rate was 92%, while Google Ads hit 80-90%
“And then at Airbnb this 92% number is You know, the highest failure rate that I've observed. Now I've quoted other sources that, you know, it's not that I worked at groups that were particularly bad booking Google ads, other companies published numbers. There …”
May 22, 2025 positive
Booking Holdings grew from $10B to $170B selling the exact same products
“Booking Holdings... Is a hundred and seventy billion dollar company, and what's interesting is that 10 years ago, it was a ten billion dollar company, which sold flights, hotels, and cars. Like, 10 years later, it still sells flights, hotels, and cars. It's a …”