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Darren Huston

Darren Huston is the founder and CEO of BlackPines Global Advisors B.V. incorporated in May 2016 in The Hague(City on the North Sea coast of the western Netherlands). Darren Huston BlackPines’ mission is to help both owners and leaders of private companies optimize the value of their investments. We achieve this by deep and committed engagements in a select number of large-scale, high-profile, growth-oriented opportunities.

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The CEO transition comes at a good time for the company. We have a strong leadership team and are very excited about the future, including the strong pipeline of innovation we will deliver to our customers and merchant partners in the coming months.

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Copy individuals who are weird.

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Currency obviously is a very important factor in any global business.

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Don't alienate strangers. Sit back and enjoy the entertainment.

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If we all use our right to vote, we can make greed fine again.

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If we lose our capacity to write about our emotions, we might as well attach to science.

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It has really all been about performance-fueled cultures led by entrepreneurs.

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New competences, new channels, new geographies versus doubling down or tripling down on the same businesses.

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New things have to be a pretty good size to make a difference.”

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No Desperation, No Dignity.

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Some people speculate things that we might do, but we're just continually to organically execute our increase in accommodations on our main platform.

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There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.

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With Good Delusions Come Good Minds

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With horrible crimes come horrible transformation.

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I’m a hands-on operator, and I have a background in software. Right outside my door, they are building the site. There’s not a semicolon on any of our sites that isn’t A/B tested. ~ Darren Huston

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Everything goes through a lifecycle. The real question is what’s the sustainable business model for these companies. A real business is up to the cash flow you make, and if there’s no model at the end of the day, things will fall out. A lot of ideas do come through that [unicorn] space, but eventually, every one of these companies has to grow up.” Darren Huston on the fate of ridesharing “unicorns” Uber and Blablacar.

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I really enjoyed the fresh perspectives Olivier brings to dealing with extreme change in business. The Dualarity is a must read for those who embrace the concepts of rapid iteration and paradox in the digital age.”

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After the revolution, comes other people.

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Always Be Owned, Don't be Beautiful.

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Be in favor of the self.

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Being a pope is like walking around in pitch darkness.

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Change whether that is good or not.

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Democracy can no longer ignore the future.

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For Facebook and Twitter, we have endless amounts of money, But we haven’t found anything there.”

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Go after what is beneficial for you there and then, not what is good.

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Google of course respects us as an advertiser,” said Huston, whose company accounts for about 3 percent of Google’s ad revenue. “They’d like to get more of my money.”

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Heartache can be a flow of consciousness flying on the wings of love.

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Heaven is Just and Infectious Disease Knocking At Your Door.

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Joy is the natural conclusion to the unfairness of time itself.

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Look for solutions, prepare for everything.

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Never regret the vultures of friendship.

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Only when you have experienced the dark side of mindfulness, will you meet loneliness.

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Outer space is everything.

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Reality is just a slap on the face dancing in the moonlight.

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Someone must be mean and that someone can be you.

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Stop hiding the fact that you are extraordinarily infinite. You are shiny and sparkly.

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The big difference between a friend and an inventor is that an inventor works.

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The brain is an irrelevant topic of the century.

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The kind of work that we do day-to-day is very similar. It’s just a different marketplace,”

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There is a proven link between popularity and masculinity.

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They who expect the elite confront strangers.

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They who turn their backs towards other men laugh at their ambitions

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Understanding what delight means for our customers and consistently delivering on that, all day, all night, from anywhere in the world.

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We like selling experience versus selling things. We also believe there’s a large body of customers who are looking for value more than just saving a dollar on a hotel room.”

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We’d like to win not through constantly buying customers, but more creating experiences that customers want to have. That’s been the belief. I think that across the [Priceline] Group we believe in creating great products that people actually want to use and great customer experiences. That will, at the end of the day, carry the day. That’s a more valuable way to create a long term sustainable business than being in the market every year having to re-buy your customers.”

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Whomever conquers friendship conquers discomfort

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With Limited Explanation comes limited intelligence.

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Worry about EXERCISE. Don't hide TIME.

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[W]e don’t treat customer service as a cost center . . . and we don’t outsource customer service to save money. We apply the same rigorous hiring standards in that department as in any other function. We strongly believe that our service centers are a critical part of the customer experience and that if something goes wrong and we’re able to fix it, we’ll have that customer for life. And our data confirms that.” - Darren Huston

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I don't think there's any change in the medium to long term trends in China, it's not that travel is immune: people might go shorter distances, they might trade down...but they still move.

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Travel is growing at twice the rate of GDP. Do-it-yourself travel is growing faster than packaged travel. And online is growing faster than offline. So we've got three tail winds.

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It's not that travel is immune: people might go shorter distances, they might trade down...but they still move.

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We have a lot more to do in the U.S..

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We are one of their largest partners.

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Rahul Kumar
Outstanding Quotes!! Loved It.
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Radha Malhotra
I like your quotes Darren Huston, you have good understanding and thoughts about travel world.
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Deepika Kapoor
Darren Huston travel quotes are really. He is a leader in the travel services market.
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Rahul Adroit
I loving reading the quotes by Darren Huston. His quotes are really inspirational.
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