Uber’s board wants Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to be its next CEO
This is the guy who made a huge tactical mistake when Booking.com was challenging Expedia by choosing to stick to merchant model (i.e., buying inventory) as Booking went for the agency model (i.e., lead gen).<p>Expedia has moved to an agency model since but the damage was done. Booking managed to get far more inventory, capitalise on more search/PPC traffic and blow past Expedia.<p>Wonder if he's going to make a similar kind of mistake and misread the transportation market.<p>Props to a fellow originally Iranian though :-)