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When we grew up, our family and kind of gaggle of cousins would go to the south of France for the summers. And we just had a grand time.
Written by Dara Khosrowshahi
My family owned a bunch of pharmaceutical manufacturing plants and other consumer-goods manufacturing plants. We would license Western goods and manufacture them in Iran and distribute them throughout the Middle East.
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I think I wanted to be a doctor. In Iran, the engineering and medical professions are worshipped. My father very much wanted me to be a doctor. I was certainly eager to please as a young man - as a kid, I should say.
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It was a choice between a paint factory in Indianapolis - a management training program to maybe run the paint factory one day - or go to New York City and become an investment banker. It wasn't a very difficult decision.
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Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.
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While Expedia is outbound-focused, Wotif is much more about domestic travel.
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Traveloka is the clear online travel leader in Indonesia and is expanding aggressively throughout Southeast Asia.
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When you let travelers vote with their clicks, and you put that at the center of your decision-making, you build the product they want, and ultimately, their business will follow.
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As we move over to more of a mobile device-centric world... I think the interaction model with devices is going to be much more voice-based.
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When you go to a voice-based interaction, you can't tell people, 'Ask me this question and structure it in this way.' And if they ask a question, and you have a bad answer, first time, maybe they'll be okay with it. Third time, they're going to say, 'This is a complete waste of time. I'm going away.'
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If you don't optimize for the consumer on the Internet, you're dead.
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Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.
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We sure didn't feel like refugees, but in hindsight, I guess we were - my father and mother left everything behind to come here - to be safe and give their boys a chance to rebuild a life.
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I remember my father taking us to meeting with lawyers, interviews with immigration officers, doing everything he could to get us that treasured Green Card - and the happiness, the sense of relief, when he finally did - we knew that we were welcome now, and we would be welcome tomorrow.
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When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.
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I started in investment banking at Allen & Company in 1991. It was the go-go days of media mergers, and we were incredibly busy with one deal after another. Unlike typical investment banking groups, even in the midst of merger mania, we didn't have a formal face-time culture - and I felt empowered by that.
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I think where Trump just has it dead wrong is this is a world of us versus them.
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We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.
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My family emigrated to the U.S. after the Iranian revolution in 1978.
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You have to empower your employees to make their own choices and trust that they will make the right choices.
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Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.
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When you see the sacrifices that your parents make for you, you want to do well for them.
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Chinese consumers don't book hotel rooms that are as expensive as U.S. consumers.
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I thought all those channels on cable TV were really cool.
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Desperation sometimes drives innovation.
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It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an immigrant nation.
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Anytime you introduce volatility, it is not good for business and not good for travel.
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If you get the product and technology right, then the rest usually falls into place.
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I think from a personal standpoint, maybe I appreciate a little more that there are two sides to every story, and the way that the U.S. is sometimes is viewed outside of the U.S. can be pretty tough, depending on what the U.S.'s actions are.
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I think that, in the end, the consumer's going to win on the Internet.
Written by Dara Khosrowshahi

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