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We Still Don't "Get" China

Seeing Both Sides

Somewhat to the chagrin of the rest of the family, Tom left America for China 20 years ago to be an executive for advertising agency JWT (one of the WPP holding companies). So when my cousin, Tom Doctoroff , released his second book on China, What Chinese Want , I was excited to read it.

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Go Anywhere, Get Anything

Reid Hoffman

A second learning for me with Expedia: Expedia was a holding company of a bunch of different operations – Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Travelscape – and Expedia.com was our biggest problem asset. Like Cornershop the grocery side: we thought grocery is a great vertical for us to go after, and it’s there in Latin America.

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