Building the Ecosystem That Absorbs Capital: The Entrepreneur's Perspective

To close Wave 1, host Ovidiu Bujorean sits down with Jeff Hoffman - co-founder of Priceline and Booking.com, Chairman of the Global Entrepreneurship Network, and a member of the OviBees Ventures Global Advisory Board. The two go back over a decade, to Jakarta and the GIST Initiative, where a young founder named Natali Ardianto was in the room - his startup Tiket.com went on to become one of Indonesia's leading travel platforms, later acquired by Blibli. This time, the question is different: after four episodes on the capital side, what does it actually take to build ventures that can absorb it? Podbean | Spotify | Apple Podcast | RootsToFoods.com Capital Deployment Linkedin Newsletter  ***Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/allafric... Read current news on AllAfrica: English: https://allafrica.com/ French: https://fr.allafrica.com/ Support AllAfrica (Donate): https://allafrica.com/commerce/contri... Advertise on AllAfrica: https://partners.allafrica.com/ Subscribe to AllAfrica News Archives (going back to 1996!!!) Individuals: https://allafrica.com/commerce/user/s... Libraries and Educational Institutions: https://allafrica.com/misc/info/subsc... Global Institutions and Corporations: https://allafrica.com/misc/info/subsc... Follow AllAfrica: Twitter (English):   / allafrica   Twitter (French):   / allafricafrench   Facebook (English):   / 98946450029   Facebook (French):   / 300579543341939   LinkedIn:   / allafrica   Google+: https://plus.google.com/+allafrica ****** AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 800 news and information items daily from over 140 African news organizations and our own reporters to an African and global public. We operate from Cape Town, Dakar, Abuja, Monrovia, Nairobi and Washington DC.