6 Blunt Quotes About Competition and Success from TripAdvisor's CEO


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Now that TripAdvisor is a standalone public company, CEO Steve Kaufer is getting downright candid about the competition. He has lots to say about rivals or would-be rivals, including former parent Expedia, Google, Amazon, Booking.com and Kayak, among others.
It's been two years since Expedia Inc. spun off TripAdvisor into a public company, and CEO Steve Kaufer, it appears, is finally finding his game. Not from an operational perspective: TripAdvisor has long been a successful company, and the envy of many in the travel industry. As Kaufer boasts in an interview with Xconomy: "We’re amazingly profitable. We’ve had a lo