![]() ![]() Kidder digresses from the main story line, with a short sidebar on Don Knuth, the legendary computer scientist and author of the seminal treatise on programming, The Art of Computer Programming. ![]() For their trouble, they got $.75 per referral from the airline.With under 300 employees, they made a substantial profit that enticed Priceline to purchase them in 2012 for a hefty two billion dollars. I never really paid attention to Kayak’s business model before this, but Kayak didn't actually sell flights, like Expedia or Travelocity, and instead referred people to the airline websites. English’s diagnosis with bipolar disorder plays a big role in the narrative and his coping strategies are nothing short of heroic. ![]() English considered himself something a “Pied Piper,” recruiting the best and the brightest geeks to join him in his startups some successful, others, not so much. Kidder follows working-class Paul English’s journey from a rockstar programmer to a serial entrepreneur. It's a chronicle of the life of Kayak founder Paul English, and his struggle to figure out what he wants to do when he grows up after selling the Kayak travel search engine for travel to. The author of the Pulitzer prize-winning Soul of a New Machine has a new book out: A Truck Full of Money: One man’s quest to recover from great success. ![]()
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