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Expedia & Zillow: Rich Barton
How I Built This with Guy Raz
How Did You Become a Travel Guide?
i was quite a business traveller, and planning was pretty difficult. I wanted to jump through the phone, turn the screen towards me and do it myself. There was a service on prodigy that enabled me to access directly the airline and hotel reservation systems. i could spoof being a travel agent. And so i looked at that, and, you know, i had maround me as well, and we looked at that and hand we were like, well, that would be interesting to bring to normal consumers. Give power to the people to book this themselves, to turn on the lights in the room to see it all. That ended up being my pitch to bill gates.
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