Expedia

“Dara left right when I joined... when Expedia spun out pretty much right as I joined.”

“I think eventually everyone has to let them in. The question is on what terms?... If it turns out that they have sufficient market power... then I guess they were right... Then it would be a bad move.”

“Shopify and Expedia - Named as companies taking the opposite approach from Amazon, opening their platforms to agent access rather than blocking it.”

“Travel platform Expedia announced an integration with Muse, but that didn't stop its stock from sinking, along with its travel booking peers, on fears that it could be disintermediated by an agent army.”

“Expedia seeks to keep its middleware position.”

“Hotels, travel agencies, and aggregators are racing to build loyalty programs and AI-native booking tools as agentic chatbots threaten to become a new travel-planning layer that could steer customers away from Expedia, Booking.com, and other incumbents.”

“VP Development - Tom Reay, development @ Expedia & Ocado”

“His whole career is taking messy data and organizing it... take data that exists that is just not transparently, easily structured and available and make it transparent, easily structured and available.”

“We happened to make a deal with Expedia, my old company. And we're essentially giving the vast majority of the economics of that deal back to Uber One members.”

“Barry always insisted on going to the source, getting unfiltered data. It was sometimes unpleasant. It took more time. But getting to the ground truth would help his decision making and would allow him to give that edge to kind of go against the grain.”