3 More Questions (Glenn Fogel) with David Novak and Koula Callahan
How Leaders Lead with David Novak
David Novak Leadership
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🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to How Leaders Lead. I'm Kula Callahan, here to bring you another edition of three more questions with David Novak. |
| 0:10.1 | In these episodes, we debrief the conversation that David had with the previous week's guest. |
| 0:15.5 | And today's conversation, David, we're debriefing your interview with Glenn Fogel. |
| 0:20.6 | He's a CEO of booking holdings, which has a number of companies under its umbrella, |
| 0:26.1 | including booking.com, open table, and kayak, which if you are a traveler, |
| 0:31.7 | you definitely know what those companies are, and you've probably used them a bunch. |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, what I love about Glenn is he's been |
| 0:37.6 | with that company a long time and he's seen enormous growth and been so much a part of it. He's very, |
| 0:43.4 | very strategic. And in spite of all the success he's had, he's very grounded and knows that he wouldn't |
| 0:49.7 | have that success if he didn't have a great team around him. And, you know, he's very grateful. |
| 0:55.2 | And I like that in a leader. I do too. You can also tell that he just really values and |
| 1:00.9 | operates with a ton of common sense. And as you say, David, the thing about common sense is |
| 1:07.0 | it's not all that common. And there's no question why Glenn and his company have been so |
| 1:11.9 | successful because they just operate with common sense. Absolutely cool. And the other thing I will |
| 1:16.7 | say is that you're very uncommon, you know, and it's fun doing this with you. So let's get going. |
| 1:24.7 | I mean, you know, we try to keep these things under 15 minutes. Let's see what we can do. |
| 1:28.6 | What a hidden compliment. I love that. All right. Let's go. |
| 1:35.4 | Okay, question number one is a fun one. I had to ask this because booking holdings. It's obviously |
| 1:41.9 | a travel company. David, what is your best travel story? |
| 1:47.2 | Well, I don't know if it's my best travel story, but it might be my favorite one. |
| 1:51.4 | Your favorite one, sure. That works. |
| 1:53.1 | You know, I was very lucky as the CEO of Young Brands to travel the world. We had businesses |
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