How I Got Here, episode 17 - Terry Jones of Travelocity

Terry Jones, CEO, chairman

How I Got Here is a weekly podcast from PhocusWire and Mozio, getting the inside stories behind innovation and startups in travel and transportation.

 

Few people have been there at the formation of two pioneering brands in online travel. Terry Jones tells his story to Mozio's David Litwak and Kevin May from PhocusWire.

 

There are few people in the industry that can lay claim to being there at the creation of two pioneering brands in online travel.

Similar to Expedia's birth as a unit within Microsoft in 1996, fellow online travel agency Travelocity was formed in the same year as a consumer-facing division of Sabre.

Leading the six-strong team was Terry Jones, a former-marketing and IT exec from American Airlines who had found himself in the chief information officer role at Sabre.

Seven years later, with a corporate spin-off and eventual IPO under his belt, Jones left and became one of the key figures behind a travel search engine born out of General Catalyst, working alongside its founders Steve Hafner and Paul English.

He stayed with the company as its chairman until 2013, when Booking Holdings came calling with a $1.8 billion deal.

Jones joins us for the latest episode of How I Got Here.

HIGH is a weekly show produced by PhocusWire and Mozio, aimed at getting the inside stories behind startups and innovation in travel and transportation.

It's hosted by our editor in chief, Kevin May, and Mozio co-founder and CEO David Litwak.

A full transcript and additional analysis in 5+ languages is available on Mozio.com/move.

Here is the video version via PhocusWire's YouTube channel: