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Gerstner knows online travel and tech – he was there as both an investor and operator during e-commerce’s first wave.
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Brad Gerstner founded Altimeter Capital in 2008, and his first trade was for Priceline at $50 per share. Now known as Booking Holdings, the company trades at around $3,440, and has a market cap of $115 billion.
That was a phenomenal bet from a guy who knows the online travel and tech industries well; Gerstner was there as both an investor and operator during e-commerce’s first wave.
In 1999, Gerstner was on the founding team of General Catalyst and served as co-CEO of NLG,