- Great startup story. Raised a total of $4.2m in venture capital, sold to IAC/Expedia for $210M, and had some interesting adventures and pivots along the way. They started out by trying to aggregate reviews from other websites and white label their product to Expedia and other large travel websites. TripAdvisor.com was just a showcase that accidentally became a destination site. As of today TripAdvisor is an independent public company, trading at a market cap of $3.5B.
Excerpted from The TripAdvisor IPO – Chris Dixon.
