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Employing women is good for business.
I found the Internet really fascinating.
I'm a master at getting as much in a day as possible.
We believe in global scalability with local relevance.
There's no point being at the airport longer than needed.
Our mission is to empower people to experience the world.
Travel is a combination of the personal and the emotional.
Booking.com is one of the biggest translation companies in the world.
We want to make sure that we have the right products for Chinese people.
Both business and leisure travellers are enjoying unprecedented levels of choice.
And as a woman, you need to take risks. Don't stay too long in your own swim lane.
Using science to tell us what customers are looking for is second nature for us here.
Booking.com has been very good at performance marketing. That's how we grew our business.
India has a sizeable chunk of the Asian travel market - both inbound and outbound travel.
We wanted to go much bigger than anybody else. That's why we've targeted so many countries.
We are a bottom-up culture, and we need a communications platform that can facilitate that.
As CEOs or board members, women are still underrepresented, and that gap is actually growing.
China's domestic travel is increasing, and that's why we are building our teams here in China.
We know that companies which have more women in leadership positions have a better performance.
We will invest more into China to make sure that our brand gets more known to Chinese customers.
If you're afraid of failure or getting it wrong, you'll never truly innovate or disrupt the market.
Eventually, people should just say 'give me the best hotel in a certain date in a certain location.'
With any previous transition we made with technology, it hasn't been the case that we need less people.
From our earliest days, Booking.com has been deploying technology to help strip the friction out of travel.
There are more and more properties joining us to benefit from and leverage our global online marketing expertise.
In the beginning of Booking.com, we were travelling around Europe a lot. Sometimes we'd do five cities in a week.
The move to Internet-enable travel booking is creating massive convenience, efficiency, and savings for consumers.
Booking.com started with just a website, but we've always thought of our company as being more than just a website.
India is a fast-growth market and is developing a lot. We continue to increase our partners here and make investments.
We found we were able to create better, customer-centric product features more quickly with a more diverse product team.
Every customer is different, and the travel experience is completely fluid, but the end goal is to find the best solutions.
As a company, we believe in free and open borders. We feel this best facilitates the exchange of cultural values and ideas.
Japan is a very important market for us and has grown remarkably as one of the most popular travel destinations in the world.
We have built out the diversity of our product teams, and we saw the caliber of our testing and experimentation improve significantly.
I think companies need to take more ownership over the gender gap themselves because if everybody does that, then overall, it will improve.
Education is crucial in determining which profession women will choose, so it's important to spark interest in technologies at an early age.
My mother was from an entrepreneurial family and very creative. She always pushed me to take risks, to do things I wouldn't have thought of.
Tech is a key driver of social and economic change, and around the world, women like me are transforming businesses, industries, and communities.
Not only do we need more women in the technology sector, we also clearly need to refocus energy on improving gender equality in the global economy.
I am a woman, and I am proud to say that I work in technology. But I also recognise that the combination of those two facts puts me in the minority.
What always drove me was my curiosity. That's what made me join Booking and not be afraid to leave a very successful job and then go into a startup.
The mission of Booking is to empower people to experience the world. Whatever people want to do, wherever they want to go, they can book it with us.
Booking travel is not like shopping or groceries or booking a restaurant. It's much less frequent, so understanding what works just takes a lot more time.
I've always been curious and taken many risks, but that is quite atypical for a woman. On the other hand, I think that's the only way to grow beyond yourself.
From the early days, Booking.com has been disruptive. Our aim is to create the best product for our customers, and we do that through constant innovation and testing.
As a company powered by technology and digital innovation, Booking.com believes strongly in ensuring equal access and opportunity for all within the technology sector.
Instead of traveling on a weekend, begin your trip on a Tuesday or Wednesday, which are often the cheapest days to fly. Being flexible with timing can help with savings.
There are a lot of threats out there. Amazon can enter the travel market. Google could enter the accommodation space. But that is not something that we actively focus on.
Friction still exists in travel, and we are on a quest to go even further to make the entire experience - from planning to staying and beyond - even easier with technology.
For me, it's about taking things that do not take a lot of space. Don't take a lot of shoes. I tend to pack a lot of dresses, for instance, because they take up less space.