American online travel platform founded as a division of Microsoft in 1996, spun out through IAC, now the world's largest online travel agency by revenue.
Pioneered the online travel agency model — aggregating hotel, flight, and car rental inventory into a single consumer interface — and demonstrated that travel was the ideal e-commerce category due to high transaction value and repeat purchase.
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