Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.

It's definitely a problem inside the technology industry - not just gender discrimination. Diversity is an issue within technology, within Expedia.

One of the early lessons that I learned in leadership is that it's the leader's job to always go against the flow.

There's simply no better company out there doing mobile travel apps with the same level of design sensibility and utility as Mobiata.

While Expedia is outbound-focused, Wotif is much more about domestic travel.

Traveloka is the clear online travel leader in Indonesia and is expanding aggressively throughout Southeast Asia.

Anytime you introduce volatility, it is not good for business and not good for travel.

We found that travel, especially online travel, has been quite resistant to economic cycles.

Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.

I think I wanted to be a doctor. In Iran, the engineering and medical professions are worshipped. My father very much wanted me to be a doctor. I was certainly eager to please as a young man - as a kid, I should say.