There are few people in the industry that can lay claim to being there at the creation of two pioneering brands in online travel.

Similar to Expedia's birth as a unit within Microsoft in 1996, fellow online travel agency Travelocity was formed in the same year as a consumer-facing division of Sabre.

Leading the six-strong team was Terry Jones, a former-marketing and IT exec from American Airlines who had found himself in the chief information officer role at Sabre.

Seven years later, with a corporate spin-off and eventual IPO under his belt, Jones left and became one of the key figures behind a travel search engine born out of General Catalyst, working alongside its founders Steven Hafner and Paul English.

He stayed with Kayak as its chairman until 2013, when Booking Holdings came calling with a $1.8 billion deal.

Jones joins us for the latest episode of How I Got Here.

HIGH is a weekly show produced by PhocusWire and Mozio, aimed at getting the inside stories behind startups and innovation in travel and transportation.

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