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KAYAK: Paul English
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Kayak - A Search Engine for the Travel Industry
In the early years of kayak, it cost us about a dollar on average to buy someone to come to our web site. We used orbits as a stalking horse to get all the airlines to pay us directly so we could send people directly to the airline. If your plane was late, call the airline, don't call us. Originally, kaik had no revenue. And also, were scraping these websites without their permission. It's one of these things soo ask for forgiveness, not permission. So we just scraped web sites. But then we sawt it growing rapidly.
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