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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. Fortunately, on the side, the company had built up TripAdvisor.com as a demo site to show the prospective clients what a vertical search engine could do. Comparing TripAdvisor with Akamai.