Booking.com

“Former employees of Dutch tech giants have founded 270 companies that raised $1.93B and now employ 5,149 people. Booking.com leads with 88 spinoffs, while high salaries, faster hiring, and shorter tenure keep feeding talent into the ecosystem.”

“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.”