Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBrad Gerstner: belief
15 Mar 2022 Acquired Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)
“I said, well, I can't tell you that, but he's one of the big online travel players. He goes, well, I think Barry wants to buy them too.”
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- Speaker
- Brad Gerstner
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 15 Mar 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)
Transcript context
…And to be clear, this is pre-IAC buying Expedia. These are two completely different entities bidding against each other for your company. Correct. I said to Dara, well, we already have an interested party that we're talking to. He goes, well, let me talk to Barry, so he talked to him. They come back and he said, well, who is it? I said, well, I can't tell you that, but he's one of the big online travel players. He goes, well, I think Barry wants to buy them too. That's ultimately what went down between October of 2000. In May of 2001, we put together a deal where USA networks would be renamed IAC, bought both NLG and Expedia. Oh, those were concurrent?…
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