Drew Patterson's guest appearances

Drew Patterson

Acquired

EFC Soccer Talk

Sounds from Samford Athletics

Quarantined Athletics

Michael Mauboussin

Brian Koppelman

Wade Foster

Kevin Young

Rahul Vohra

Anu Hariharan

Sarah Tavel

Jason Calacanis

Dick Costolo

Scott Belsky

Andreessen Horowitz

Kevin Rose

Kara Swisher

Michael Ovitz

Nolan Bushnell

OwlTail

Henry Schwartz

EFC Soccer Talk #43 - College Recruitment with Henry Schwartz and Drew Patterson by European Football Coaching

EFC Soccer Talk #43 - College Recruitment with Henry Schwartz and Drew Patterson

Samford Baseball returns to Lakeshore Drive and Samford Softball hits the road. Men's and women's basketball take their final road trips of the season before tourney time. Samford Athletics Marketing Coordinator Drew Patterson joins Riley to discuss his role and past as a Samford track athlete.

Samford Baseball returns to Lakeshore Drive and Samford Softball hits the road. Men's and women's basketball take their final road trips of the season before tourney time. Samford Athletics Marketing Coordinator Drew Patterson joins Riley to discuss his role and past as a Samford track athlete.

Episode Twenty-Three with Marketing Coordinator Drew Patterson

Acquired trains its lens on the “second or third best acquisition of all-time”, Priceline’s 2005 purchase of Booking.com. Our heroes are joined by friend-of-the-show and former Jetsetter &amp; Room 77 CEO Drew Patterson to help understand how this little-known startup from The Netherlands grew into the largest travel company in the world, with nearly $8B in annual revenue. Was this deal even better than Instagram??? We debate, hotly.   Sponsors:Vanta: https://bit.ly/acquiredvantaStatsig: bit.ly/statsigacquiredModern Treasury: https://bit.ly/acquiredmoderntreasuryTopics covered include:  The biggest startup you’ve never heard of (in the US), Booking.com, and its parent company Priceline (yes, the William Shatner Priceline) Booking’s founding in Amsterdam in late 1996: by recent college graduate Geert-Jan Bruinsma Skift.com’s Definitive Oral History of Online Travel   The travel industry's GDS's (“Global Distribution Systems”) and the development of Sabre  How Bruinsma raised the initial money for Booking: by emailing anyone he know who had an email address  OTAs ("Online Travel Agencies”) and how they operate; the "merchant model" versus the “agency model" The role of search in online travel  Bill Gurley on  Conversion: The Most Important Internet Metric of All  Expedia’s early flirtation with Booking, and decision not to acquire the company Priceline head of M&amp;A Glenn Fogel’s vision for how powerful the agency model for OTAs could become in Europe Priceline and Glenn's 2004 acquisition of Active Hotels in the UK, followed by the 2005 acquisition of Booking for $133M and the combination of the two businesses into Booking.com  Booking’s incredible growth in the decade since the acquisition, from less than 20M room-nights to over 500M, and $7.8B in revenue in 2016   The Carve Out:  Ben: Scott Forstall talking about the original iPhone at the Computer History Museum  David: The Big Sick  Drew: Bloomberg’s Money Stuff by Matt Levine  

Acquired trains its lens on the “second or third best acquisition of all-time”, Priceline’s 2005 purchase of <a href="http://Booking.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Booking.com</a>. Our heroes are joined by friend-of-the-show and former Jetsetter &amp; Room 77 CEO Drew Patterson to help understand how this little-known startup from The Netherlands grew into the largest travel company in the world, with nearly $8B in annual revenue. Was this deal even better than Instagram??? We debate, hotly.    Sponsors: Vanta: <a href="https://bit.ly/acquiredvanta" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/acquiredvanta</a>Statsig: <a href="https://bit.ly/statsigacquired" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/statsigacquired</a> Modern Treasury: <a href="https://bit.ly/acquiredmoderntreasury" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/acquiredmoderntreasury</a>Topics covered include: <ul> <li>The biggest startup you’ve never heard of (in the US), <a href="http://Booking.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Booking.com</a>, and its parent company Priceline (yes, the William Shatner Priceline)</li> <li>Booking’s founding in Amsterdam in late 1996: by recent college graduate Geert-Jan Bruinsma</li> <li><a href="http://Skift.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Skift.com</a>’s <a href="https://skift.com/history-of-online-travel/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Definitive Oral History of Online Travel </a> </li> <li>The travel industry's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GDS's (“Global Distribution Systems”)</a> and the development of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sabre</a> </li> <li>How Bruinsma raised the initial money for Booking: by emailing anyone he know who had an email address </li> <li>OTAs ("Online Travel Agencies”) and how they operate; the "merchant model" versus the “agency model"</li> <li>The role of search in online travel </li> <li>Bill Gurley on <a href="http://abovethecrowd.com/2013/10/02/conversion-the-most-important-internet-metric-of-all-revisited/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Conversion: The Most Important Internet Metric of All</a> </li> <li>Expedia’s early flirtation with Booking, and decision not to acquire the company</li> <li>Priceline head of M&amp;A Glenn Fogel’s vision for how powerful the agency model for OTAs could become in Europe</li> <li>Priceline and Glenn's 2004 acquisition of Active Hotels in the UK, followed by the 2005 acquisition of Booking for $133M and the combination of the two businesses into <a href="http://Booking.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Booking.com</a> </li> <li>Booking’s incredible growth in the decade since the acquisition, from less than 20M room-nights to over 500M, and $7.8B in revenue in 2016</li> </ul>  The Carve Out: <ul> <li>Ben: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjR2vegUBAo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott Forstall talking about the original iPhone at the Computer History Museum</a> </li> <li>David: <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_big_sick/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Big Sick</a> </li> <li>Drew: Bloomberg’s <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/topics/money-stuff" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Money Stuff by Matt Levine</a> </li> </ul>

Episode 41: Booking.com with Jetsetter & Room 77 CEO Drew Patterson