Full Video: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi at Skift Global Forum 2021
Skift Take
Uber in recent years has been offloading operations in geographies where it can't compete. Its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who is an Expedia board member, knows that Expedia's Vrbo, too, can't launch a frontal assault against the larger Airbnb, but has to invest into its strength. That's worked to a degree.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi spoke with Skift Executive Editor Dennis Schaal at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed the theme “Finding New Strategies for the Road Ahead.”
You can watch a full video of their discussion as well as read a transcript of it, below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwTYAYWBt24Dennis Schaal: Hey everybody. Dara, thank you so much for being here in person.
Dara Khosrowshahi: It's good to be back.
Schaal: All right. So four years at Uber, Expedia CEO for about 13 years, a bunch of years at IAC involved with Expedia before that. I was thinking when we were standing backstage there listening to the Marriott CEO, don't you remember all those Marriott Expedia negotiations? Confess, do you miss this stuff?
Khosrowshahi: Oh, I miss it so much.
Schaal: I'm sure. The flight's taking off around here. Hey, so I wanted to break with ... [Skift] tradition because we're known for asking
