Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak
I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. Of the ones I have been to recently, the Nantucket Conference has been my favorite. A great group of people and a small enough gathering that you can actually get to know many/most of them. My thanks to Scott Kirsner who organizes the conference and was kind enough to invite me to speak this year.
One of the sessions at the conference was an interview with Paul English, founder and CTO of Kayak. The interview was conducted by Larry Bohn of General Catalyst (Larry also happens to be an investor in my startup, HubSpot and sits on our board of directors). In case you are one of the few people that hasn’t heard of Kayak yet, it’s the most popular travel search site on the web (and one of the top 1,000 most popular sites on the web). Kayak is great Boston-area success story. One quick point on that: In Dec 2007, with just 39 employees, Kayak raised $230 million (at a much higher than that valu
