EXPE

Expedia Group, Inc.

A travel technology company and one of the world's largest online travel agencies, Expedia Group runs the booking sites Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Orbitz, and Trivago, letting travelers arrange flights, hotels, vacation rentals, and more in one place. It began in 1996 as a project inside Microsoft in Bellevue, Washington, and was spun off as its own company in 1999. The name blends "exploration" and "speed," and its early team famously worked out of a modest office park with used furniture, dodging the flashy dot-com culture of the era.