Expedia Group Inc to Webcast Explore 22 General Session Transcript

May 04, 2022 / 08:00PM GMT
Barry Diller - Expedia Group, Inc. - Executive Chairman of the Board & Senior Executive

Hello, everybody. Hi, everybody. My God, you're a lot of people. I'm very happy to be here. I'm very happy to welcome you to EXPLORE. You know I know it's a -- yes, yes, yes. I do know that it's a bromide to call something new. But there really is a new Expedia. And I hope today that we're going to be giving you some insight and some inspiration for where we have been and where we're going.

See, we've now been at this for about 25 years. And we finally, yes, finally, got it right after all the topsy-turvy rollercoaster that we've been riding all these years, and let me tell you why. Our business has had its heart stopped twice. Something profound happens when your heart stops. You reassess everything.

Now I first became involved 21 years ago on the eve of 9/11. We had just acquired a controlling interest in Expedia from Microsoft. We haven't officially closed by September 11. And we had this out clause, we could exercise it if, in fact, something materially changed. Well -- yes, yes, yes, they did

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