Parr: Michael Loeb helped build Priceline to a billion in a year
Sam Parr · How to Network with Billionaires with Andrew Wilkinson | My First Million Ep. #174 · Apr 23, 2021 · at 1:22:22
Sam Parr recounts the entrepreneurial track record of Michael Loeb, founder of Loeb Enterprises and early co-founder/backer of Priceline.
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“He started this thing called Synapse, I think, which he sold to Meredith or Time Magazine for a hundred million dollars. Then with that money, he started Priceline he started with this guy named Jay Walker, and I think they sold that for billions of dollars, and I think it was the fastest time anyone has ever made a billion dollars. Like, from launch to like, the sale or the public markets, it was like a year or something like stupidly crazy.”
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