The Never-Before-Disclosed Details About the Birth of Online Travel
Skift Take
We're not giving away all the good stuff. You still need to read the entire thing.
Yesterday we launched our largest project yet, The Definitive Oral History of Online Travel.
In nearly 40,000 words founders, executives, insiders, and CEOs tell a story in their own words about the creation of Internet giants such as Expedia, Priceline, TripAdvisor, and more. We definitely don’t want you to miss some of the newsy disclosures threaded throughout this extensive narrative. So for those of you who don't have a long plane ride ahead of you or an office door to help shut out distractions, we've pulled out some of the bigger revelations:
Read The Definitive Oral History of Online Travel Now
In the mid-1990s, American Airlines/Sabre and Microsoft considered a joint venture instead of separately launching Travelocity and Expedia but both American/Sabre and Microsoft wanted to be in charge and thus couldn’t come to any agreement.
Microsoft’s Rich Barton walked into a boardroom in 1994 to meet with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and told Gates that his trave
