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🎙 播客No Priors· 2026 年 7 月 9 日· 7,881 词 · 约 39 分钟

Travel Through the Lens of AI with with Booking.com CEO Glenn Fogel

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Speaker 100:00 - 00:13
There is no such thing as a moat. There is no such thing as somewhere you're gonna be protected against innovation. Today, we have a competitive advantage on areas. Absolutely. But those can go away tomorrow.
Speaker 100:00 - 00:13
根本不存在所谓的 moat(护城河)。也不存在什么能让你免受 innovation(创新)冲击的地方。今天,我们在某些领域确实有竞争优势。绝对有。但这些优势明天就可能消失。
Speaker 100:13 - 00:24
The only one to win long term is to continue to develop new services, new ways to do things. How can we do your business better? What do you need? Where you need more demand? Where are you hurting?
Speaker 100:13 - 00:24
唯一能长期胜出的办法,就是持续开发新的服务、新的做事方式。我们怎样才能把你的业务做得更好?你需要什么?你在哪些地方需要更多需求?你又在哪些地方正承受压力?
Speaker 100:24 - 00:36
It's so much more complex. Complex. If you think you're just gonna come in and do this business and knock away these very big players, I'd say you should really understand what the business is before you decide to commit your capital.
Speaker 100:24 - 00:36
这件事要复杂得多。复杂得多。如果你觉得自己只要进来做这个业务,就能把这些体量巨大的玩家击败,我会说,在你决定投入资本之前,你真的应该先搞清楚这个行业到底是什么样的。
Speaker 200:43 - 01:16
Today on our priors, we're talking with Glenn Fogel, the CEO of Booking Holdings, a twenty something year veteran of the company who joined when it was just Priceline and worth a few $100,000,000 in the year 2000 and has since helped grow it to a $100,000,000,000 plus company with multiple massive assets across travel that are now being used in the AI era. We will talk about a variety of topics with Glenn that span everything from, the growth and changes that have happened in bookings over time, as well as his own career and perspective on AI. So, Glenn, thank you so much for joining us today.
Speaker 200:43 - 01:16
今天在 our priors 节目里,我们邀请到了 Booking Holdings 的 CEO Glenn Fogel。Glenn 在这家公司已经有二十多年资历,他在 2000 年加入时,公司还只是 Priceline,市值只有几亿美元;此后,他帮助公司成长为一家市值超过 1000 亿美元的企业,并在旅游领域拥有多个庞大资产,如今这些资产也正在 AI 时代被加以利用。我们会和 Glenn 讨论很多话题,涵盖 booking 这些年来的增长与变化,以及他自己的职业经历和对 AI 的看法。所以,Glenn,非常感谢你今天来到节目。
Speaker 101:16 - 01:18
Well, thank you very much for having me.
Speaker 101:16 - 01:18
好的,非常感谢你们邀请我。
Speaker 201:18 - 01:37
Yeah. So you've had a really interesting career. You know, you went to Wharton, you went to Harvard Law. Along the way, you worked in, I think, the MIS program at Morgan Stanley. I'd love to just hear a little bit about your early background and how that led you eventually to booking.com and eventually Booking Holdings.
Speaker 201:18 - 01:37
是的。你的职业经历真的很有意思。你上过 Wharton,也读过 Harvard Law。一路上,你还曾在 Morgan Stanley 的 MIS 项目里工作过。我很想先听你讲讲自己早期的背景,以及这些经历最终是如何把你带到 booking.com,再到 Booking Holdings 的。
Speaker 101:37 - 02:00
Sure. I can do that. So real short, I came out of work with Green Finance, and now I end up at the back office in MIS. My first job is putting tapes on a drive in a data center of IBM thirty eighty fours and the discs that went and and the tape drives and put the put the tapes on on the drive. That's where I started.
Speaker 101:37 - 02:00
当然,可以。简单说一下,我最初从 Green Finance 的工作出来,后来进了 MIS 的后台部门。我的第一份工作,是在一个装满 IBM 3084 的 data center(数据中心)里,把磁带装到驱动器上,处理那些磁盘和磁带机,就是把磁带放到驱动器上。我的起点就是这样。
Speaker 102:00 - 02:15
There's an operator. Actually, being an operator of a mainframe, very different. Nothing that you prepared for that in college for that. And I then become you become a developer, and you but I basically learned that this is not a career for me. I should do something else.
Speaker 102:00 - 02:15
那是一份 operator(操作员)的工作。实际上,做 mainframe(大型机)操作员是非常不一样的。大学里可没有什么课程会为这种工作做好准备。后来我又成了 developer(开发人员),但我基本上意识到,这不是适合我的职业道路,我应该去做别的事。
Speaker 102:15 - 02:41
And all the people I knew, undergrad and were and were going off to investment bank and made all this money, and I thought, fuck. Try to do that, but you can't go. I've now gone down one shoot, and you can't just jump out of that one to go become an investment banker. So I said, oh, I I agree to finance warrant, Harvard let me into law school, so I'll do that because that's another route. I did that, and I end up getting a job on Wall Street as a banker.
Speaker 102:15 - 02:41
我认识的所有人,不管是本科同学还是什么的,都跑去 investment bank,上班赚了很多钱,我当时想,靠。我也想试着走那条路,但你已经没法回头了。我当时已经沿着一条岔路走下去了,不能随便跳出去就变成一个 investment banker。所以我想,哦,我本来就对 finance 感兴趣,而 Harvard 也录了我进 law school,那我就走这条路吧,这也是另一条路径。我后来确实这么做了,最后还真在 Wall Street 找到了一份 banker 的工作。
Speaker 102:41 - 03:04
I did that for till '95 till 1995. And then the bank was bought by another bank, and they fired all the bankers almost, not every bank. Fired most, including me, but not everybody because they fired everybody because they well, they fired everybody. But they didn't fire everybody. So you there was a there was actually some people were picked to stay.
Speaker 102:41 - 03:04
我一直干到 '95,也就是 1995 年。后来那家 bank 被另一家 bank 收购了,他们几乎把所有 banker 都裁了,也不是每一家 bank,都裁了大多数人,包括我,不过也不是所有人都被裁了。就是说,他们裁了很多人,但没裁光。所以确实还是有一些人被挑出来留下了。
Speaker 103:05 - 03:31
That was not one of them. That that's pretty bad. So a real good lesson, though, having been fired and knowing what it's like, that is something that I've kept with me throughout my career about how to do it right and how to do it wrong and understand what goes through the other person when you tell them that I'm sorry, but there's no longer a room for you here and this is not the place for you to be. And I I really learned that firsthand being on that side of the table. And so now I'm unemployed.
Speaker 103:05 - 03:31
我不在那些人里面。这感觉可真糟。不过这其实也是个很好的教训:被裁过、知道那是什么滋味,这件事我后来整个职业生涯里一直都记着,记着该怎么把这件事做对,怎么做错,也更明白当你对别人说“很抱歉,但这里已经没有你的位置了,这里不再适合你待下去”时,对方心里会经历什么。我是真正在桌子那一边亲身学到这一课的。所以现在,我失业了。
Speaker 103:31 - 03:50
And my father had just died, not that long before this happened. My father's died, lost a job. My grandmother died, and he and the dog died, which was kind of sad. And I'm like, what do want to do with my life now? My young thirties, I'm alone, I'm saying no, whatever.
Speaker 103:31 - 03:50
而且就在这件事发生前不久,我父亲刚去世。我父亲去世了,我又丢了工作,我祖母也去世了,然后连狗也死了,这就挺让人难过的。我当时就想,我现在到底想拿自己的人生怎么办?我才三十出头,一个人,心里想着,唉,随便吧,之类的。
Speaker 103:50 - 04:03
And I said, you know, I always wanted to write a book. So I start writing a book, I write a novel, I get it done, and now I'm going try and get it published. And it's not really self publishing, man. You weren't doing it on your own. You're trying to get some agent to pick it up.
Speaker 103:50 - 04:03
我就想,你知道吗,我一直都想写一本书。于是我开始写书,写了一部小说,把它写完了,然后我就打算试着把它出版。那时候其实也不是 self-publishing(自助出版)那一套,你不是自己单干。你得想办法让某个 agent(出版经纪人)愿意接手。
Speaker 104:03 - 04:19
And I was introduced to a woman as a a blind date girlfriend. And I think she was a lawyer, but I'm sorry. I don't know. They said, well, she used to work at Random House as an editor. I said, oh, I'm very interested in how you did the And so we have a date, and the book never gets published.
Speaker 104:03 - 04:19
后来有人给我介绍了一个女人,算是 blind date(相亲)对象,后来成了女朋友。我记得她好像是 lawyer,不过抱歉,我也不太确定。别人跟我说,她以前在 Random House 做 editor。我就说,哦,我对你是怎么做这行的很感兴趣。于是我们去约会了,而那本书最终并没有出版。
Speaker 104:19 - 04:35
But I do end up marrying her and have two great kids and has wonderful life. But while I was trying to get the book, you know, an agent to be interested in it, eventually, she said, you know, if this relationship's gonna go forward, you should get a job. I said, damn. Boy, I should. I didn't wanna go back to banking.
Speaker 104:19 - 04:35
不过我最后确实娶了她,有了两个很棒的孩子,过上了很美好的生活。但当时我还在想办法让某个 agent 对那本书产生兴趣,后来她跟我说,你知道,如果这段关系还要继续下去,你就该找份工作了。我说,见鬼。还真是,我是该找工作了。我又不想回 banking。
Speaker 104:35 - 04:46
And I said, I don't know. And a friend of mine from law school was a senior type person at Morgan Stanley. And he I told him, look. Amy says I have to get a job. How do thought?
Speaker 104:35 - 04:46
我就说,我也不知道。然后我有个 law school 的朋友,当时在 Morgan Stanley 算是比较高层的人。我跟他说,你看,Amy 说我得找份工作了。你觉得呢?
Speaker 104:46 - 04:54
She said, well, we have this trading position here that you could do. I never traded anything in my life. He said, don't worry. You'll be fine. It's like, okay.
Speaker 104:46 - 04:54
她说,嗯,我们这里有个 trading 的职位你可以做。我这辈子从来没做过任何交易。他说,别担心,你会没事的。我当时就想,行吧。
Speaker 104:54 - 05:09
So I end up being head trader for a guy named Barton Bay. He's kind of a Wall Street legend and stuff. I do that for a number of years, but I just don't like it. It's not that ex it's just not for me. And that's when the Internet was really taking off that first real explosion.
Speaker 104:54 - 05:09
后来我就成了一个叫 Barton Bay 的人的 head trader。他算是 Wall Street 的传奇人物之类的。我做了好多年,但我就是不喜欢。这倒不是说有多糟,只是它不适合我。也就在那时,Internet 真正开始起飞,迎来了第一次真正的爆发。
Speaker 105:09 - 05:33
You know, the Internet boom. That's late nineties. So 1999, I started trying to interview, I think, well, I got some skills. But when I was an IT person, I got that. And I know a little bit about corporate development because being a trusted banker, and I started interviewing the only real company on the East Coast at the time of Internet, you know, abilities was Priceline.
Speaker 105:09 - 05:33
你知道,就是 Internet boom。那是 90 年代末。所以到 1999 年,我开始试着去面试,我想,嗯,我还是有一些技能的。我以前做过 IT,这方面的能力还在。而且因为做 trusted banker,我也懂一点 corporate development,于是我开始去面试。当时 East Coast 在 Internet 相关能力方面,真正像样的公司基本只有 Priceline。
Speaker 105:33 - 05:53
And they had a job for corporate development. It was perfect. So I get an offer from them, but I said, wanna wait. I wanna wait till I get my bonus for 1999 when it gets paid at the February 2000. So I go and I get my bonus check out, ready to start, And that's when, of course, that's when the Nasdaq peaked.
Speaker 105:33 - 05:53
他们正好有一个 corporate development 的职位,简直完美。所以我拿到了他们的 offer,但我说,想再等等。我要等拿到 1999 年的 bonus,到 2000 年 2 月发下来再说。于是我去把 bonus check 领了出来,准备开始上班,而那当然也正是 Nasdaq 见顶的时候。
Speaker 105:53 - 06:19
Thereby having gotten long Internet a week before when the Nasdaq peaked and stopped. And it it proved that I shouldn't be a trader having just Yeah. The wrong way. And, know, Priceline has its difficulties after that. Our stock went from where we were when we went public, we in a week or so, we were 30,000,000,000, which back then was real money and that meant something back then.
Speaker 105:53 - 06:19
结果就是,我在 Nasdaq 见顶并停住的前一周做多了 Internet。这也再次证明了我确实不该当 trader,因为我又一次做反了方向。然后,Priceline 在那之后也遇到了困难。我们 IPO 的时候,上市后一周左右,市值达到过 30,000,000,000,当年这可是真正的大钱,在那个时候是很有分量的数字。
Speaker 106:19 - 06:36
And by the time I joined I joined after the I you know, few months after the IPO, when I joined, we're probably down about 15,000,000,000. That's now, you know, February, March of 2,000. In nine months, our market cap is now down to just a couple of 100,000,000.
Speaker 106:19 - 06:36
等我加入的时候,是在 IPO 之后几个月。我加入时,公司市值大概已经跌了 15,000,000,000。那时候大概是 2000 年 2、3 月。到九个月后,我们的 market cap(市值)就只剩下几亿了。
Speaker 206:36 - 06:37
Wow.
Speaker 206:36 - 06:37
哇。
Speaker 106:37 - 06:49
And our stock is now trading at a dollar a share. We're gonna get delisted because it's dropping below a dollar a share. But stick with it. We do a reverse split to make sure we don't get delisted. So it goes to $6 a share.
Speaker 106:37 - 06:49
而我们的股价这时已经跌到每股 1 美元。因为跌破 1 美元,我们眼看就要被摘牌了。但还是撑了下来。我们做了 reverse split(反向拆股),确保自己不会被摘牌。于是股价变成了每股 6 美元。
Speaker 106:49 - 07:07
I stay, and I've been there twenty seven on my twenty seventh year. Wow. And we went from that that now reverse split $6. And in last summer, we came very close to $6,000 So over that Yeah. You know, a little more than a quarter of a century, up a thousand times.
Speaker 106:49 - 07:07
我留了下来,到现在已经是我在那里的第 27 年了。哇。而我们也从那次 reverse split 之后的 6 美元,到了去年夏天一度非常接近 6,000 美元。所以在这,嗯,超过四分之一个世纪的时间里,涨了 1,000 倍。
Speaker 107:08 - 07:13
And, you know, market cap was peaking around 180,000,000,000. Remember, it's a few 100,000,000.
Speaker 107:08 - 07:13
而且,你知道,market cap(市值)当时的峰值大约在 180,000,000,000。要记住,起点其实只是几亿。
Speaker 207:13 - 07:15
Yeah. It's amazing.
Speaker 207:13 - 07:15
对。很惊人。
Speaker 107:15 - 07:26
It's been a good ride so far, but, of course, you never stop. Every day is a new adventure. Every day is you gotta a big headline in the Feet when I had an interview with them, I said, gotta fight for a customer every day.
Speaker 107:15 - 07:26
到目前为止,这一路走来都很不错,但当然,你永远不会停下。每天都是一次新的冒险。每天都会有大新闻登上 Feet。我之前接受他们采访时说过:你必须每天都去为一个客户而战。
Speaker 207:27 - 07:36
How do you think about this the lessons from that Internet era in terms of the current AI wave? Because we're seeing this massive shift in market cap.
Speaker 207:27 - 07:36
你怎么看待那个 Internet 时代带来的经验教训,以及它们和当前这波 AI 浪潮之间的关系?因为我们现在看到 market cap 正在发生这种巨大的转移。
Speaker 107:37 - 07:58
You think like this is a an explosion of new things, so all these would cover everything just like in the late nineties. The optimism of technologies. I thought everything was gonna be wonderful. But then you get a little bit of the backlash coming backlash then too. Now you I guess it's just it's just bigger than it was then.
Speaker 107:37 - 07:58
你会觉得这就像一次新事物的大爆发,好像这些东西会覆盖一切,就像在九十年代末那样。那种对技术的乐观情绪。我当时觉得一切都会非常美好。但随后也会出现一点 backlash(反弹、反噬);那时候也是这样。现在我想,只不过这一切比当年更大了。
Speaker 107:58 - 08:07
The numbers are much bigger. The issues at hand are much bigger, the pluses and the minuses. So but I do see a lot of parallels.
Speaker 107:58 - 08:07
数字大得多。眼前的问题也大得多,pluses 和 minuses(利与弊)都更大。不过,我确实看到了很多相似之处。
Speaker 208:07 - 08:37
Yeah. Because, you know, when I look at it right now, some companies clearly have enormous revenue bases. You know, OpenAI and Anthropic are rumored to have 30,000,000,000 to $50,000,000,000 in revenue run rate each. And, in parallel, see companies that are extremely highly valued, 10,000,000,000, etcetera, that don't necessarily have even revenue yet. And if you look at the Internet era, I think it was something like four fifty companies went public in 'ninety nine, four fifty went public in the first few months of 2000, maybe 500 went public before that.
Speaker 208:07 - 08:37
对。因为,你知道,我现在看这个领域时,有些公司显然已经拥有极其庞大的 revenue base(营收基础)。你知道,传闻 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 各自的 revenue run rate(年化营收运行率)都达到了 30,000,000,000 到 50,000,000,000 美元。与此同时,我们也看到一些估值高得惊人的公司,10,000,000,000 之类,但它们甚至未必已经有收入。如果你回看 Internet 时代,我记得大概是 1999 年有四百五十家公司上市,2000 年最初几个月又有四百五十家上市,也许在那之前还有五百家公司上市。
Speaker 208:37 - 08:51
So you had 1,500 companies of which, what, two dozen are left at most? Maybe. The other fourteen eighty are gone. And so do you think the same thing will happen to the AI set of companies? Do you think something different will happen?
Speaker 208:37 - 08:51
所以你总共有 1,500 家公司,而其中最后剩下来的,最多也就两打左右?也许吧。其余那 1,480 家都消失了。所以你觉得,同样的事情也会发生在这批 AI 公司身上吗?你觉得会不会出现什么不同?
Speaker 208:51 - 08:56
Like and those aren't IPOs, by the way. Those are the very strongest or perceived to be strongest companies. Right?
Speaker 208:51 - 08:56
比如说,那些顺便说一下并不是 IPO。那些是最强、或者被认为最强的公司。对吧?
Speaker 108:56 - 09:25
Right. Well, I I I wouldn't wanna even guess at what the ratio of success to failures will be this time around versus that time versus any other time when there was incredible boom. And, you know, if we go over the last hundred and fifty years, there always been these kind of springing further back. Yeah. Speculative booms that create tremendous innovation, people coming in just both money and people.
Speaker 108:56 - 09:25
对。嗯,我我我甚至不想去猜,这一轮成功与失败的比例,相比那一轮、或者相比任何一次经历过巨大繁荣的时期,会是什么样。你知道,如果回看过去一百五十年,这种事情总会周期性地再次出现。对。投机性繁荣会带来惊人的创新,资金和人才都会一起涌入。
Speaker 109:26 - 09:37
I mean, California, you know, the forty niners, I mean, everybody's running off to the hills to gold, and it was gonna rain. I'm sure there were a lot of companies selling axes and hammers.
Speaker 109:26 - 09:37
我的意思是,California,你知道,fourty-niners 那会儿,大家都往山里跑去淘金,觉得金子简直要像下雨一样掉下来。我敢肯定,当时有很多公司在卖斧头和锤子。
Speaker 209:37 - 09:40
Yeah. Auto boom, same thing. We've seen
Speaker 209:37 - 09:40
对。汽车繁荣也是一样。我们已经看到过
Speaker 109:40 - 09:54
this Exactly. And how many of So I don't know, but this is not new. And there'll be a great deal of disappointment. There'll be a lot of people who gonna lose a lot of money, of course. That's just the nature of how our economy is working.
Speaker 109:40 - 09:54
这个了。没错。到底会有多少家——所以我不知道,但这并不新鲜。也会有大量失望的情况出现。当然,会有很多人亏很多钱。这就是我们经济运行方式的本质。
Speaker 109:54 - 10:01
When they're in speculative bubbles, that will bring all up, but that doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of companies. That's a real value it's gonna make.
Speaker 109:54 - 10:01
当市场处在投机泡沫里时,它会把一切都抬高,但这并不意味着没有很多公司会创造出真正的价值。
Speaker 210:02 - 10:22
How do you think as a founder running a company or as a CEO, you should make the decision in terms of whether to keep going or whether to sell? It's kind of like, okay, Priceline is worth a couple $100,000,000, and the decision was made, we'll keep going no matter what. And there may or may not have been options in terms of exits. I have no idea. But in today's era, there's quite a few options in terms of exits.
Speaker 210:02 - 10:22
你觉得,作为一个经营公司的 founder(创始人)或者 CEO,应该如何决定是继续做下去,还是卖掉公司?这有点像,当年 Priceline 价值几亿美元,而当时做出的决定是,无论如何都要继续做下去。至于当时在 exit(退出)方面是不是有别的选择,我并不知道。但在今天这个时代,exit 方面的选择相当多。
Speaker 210:22 - 10:23
Should people mainly be thinking about exiting
Speaker 210:22 - 10:23
人们是否应该主要考虑退出?
Speaker 110:23 - 10:24
right now, do you think?
Speaker 110:23 - 10:24
你现在是这么认为的吗?
Speaker 210:24 - 10:26
Do you think they should keep going?
Speaker 210:24 - 10:26
你觉得他们应该继续做下去吗?
Speaker 110:26 - 10:40
Yeah. I think that's right. I don't think we can give a general rule without knowing what the facts of that specific situation are. By the way, there were times early in the day where price would have been happy if somebody has made an offer. I mean, look.
Speaker 110:26 - 10:40
对,我觉得这是对的。在不了解那个具体情境事实的前提下,我不认为我们能给出一个通用规则。顺便说一句,今天早些时候也有一些时候,如果有人提出 offer(报价),price 本来是会乐意接受的。我的意思是,你看。
Speaker 110:40 - 10:56
Yeah. Yeah. Offer. It really depends a lot on what the situation is, how confident is management and people who have put the money in that which there is going to be a vulture, and how concerned are you? What are you really trying to do?
Speaker 110:40 - 10:56
对,对。Offer(报价)。这在很大程度上取决于具体是什么情况,management(管理层)和投入资金的人对“是否会出现一个 vulture(秃鹫式收购者/趁火打劫者)”到底有多大信心,以及你有多担心?你真正想做的是什么?
Speaker 110:56 - 11:07
Are trying to accomplish something? The goal is to actually make something that matters, or are you just here to make money? And nothing wrong with that. I'm not against that. So you gotta understand what is your motivation?
Speaker 110:56 - 11:07
你是在试图完成某件事吗?目标是真正做出一些重要的东西,还是你只是来赚钱的?这也没什么不对。我并不反对。所以你得明白,你的动机是什么?
Speaker 111:07 - 11:23
What are you trying to achieve? We have on average I don't know if you're American male, for the hell of a because I think that's what I've looked at. I have a seventy eight year expected lifespan when you're born. Of course, the longer you live, the higher you expect. Whatever it is, and how are you gonna spend those years?
Speaker 111:07 - 11:23
你想实现什么?平均来说,我不知道——如果你是 American male,姑且这么说吧,因为我记得我看过的是这个数据——你出生时的预期寿命是 78 岁。当然,你活得越久,预期寿命就会越高。不管具体是多少,你打算怎样度过这些岁月?
Speaker 111:23 - 11:33
What is important to you? What do you wanna do? What's the meaning to it? And I'll let the people who are actually involved in those situations. I would not I would not give them any general advice.
Speaker 111:23 - 11:33
对你来说什么是重要的?你想做什么?这件事的意义是什么?至于那些真正身处这些情境中的人,我会把判断留给他们。我不会——我不会给他们任何泛泛而谈的建议。
Speaker 211:33 - 12:02
Makes sense. So, I mean, back to booking. You know, one of the categories that you all obviously are really crucial to is travel. And there's a number of the next gen sort of AI companies who've started experimenting with things like OpenAI, had, checkout and ChatGPT, and, you know, one of the main use cases was travel, and then they canceled that feature. And I think at the time, booking went up 8% on the news.
Speaker 211:33 - 12:02
有道理。所以,说回 booking。你知道,你们显然高度依赖的类别之一就是 travel(旅行)。而有不少下一代的 AI 公司已经开始尝试一些东西,比如 OpenAI 曾推出 checkout 和 ChatGPT,你知道,其中一个主要 use case(使用场景)就是 travel,后来他们又取消了那个功能。我记得当时,booking 因为这条消息上涨了 8%。
Speaker 212:02 - 12:08
What what do you think didn't work there? What what do you think how do you think people should think about travel through the lens of AI?
Speaker 212:02 - 12:08
你觉得那里哪些地方没有奏效?你觉得人们应该如何从 AI 的视角来看待旅行这件事?
Speaker 112:08 - 12:49
So I think we should back up a little bit so everybody understands what's going on here. So in any type of situation, you'll have people who are not that knowledgeable about the industry or about how, things actually happen in the business. And so from the outside, it looked rather easy to, oh, this will be easy. AI will take care of travel, and all the travel companies won't be worthwhile, won't be worth anything. And so and that was why companies like ourselves took a big hit as some of the new models were dropped that had a much better way of doing agent in commerce as it was perceived at the time.
Speaker 112:08 - 12:49
所以我觉得我们应该先稍微往回退一步,这样大家都能明白这里到底在发生什么。任何一种情况下,都会有一些人对这个行业并没有那么了解,或者并不了解这个业务实际上是如何运作的。所以从外部看起来,这件事似乎相当容易——哦,这很简单,AI 会接管旅行业,所有旅游公司都会变得不再有价值,不值钱了。也正因为如此,像我们这样的公司在一些新模型发布后遭受了很大冲击,因为在当时人们看来,那些模型在 commerce 中做 agent 这件事上有了更好的方式。
Speaker 112:49 - 13:10
And then when the when people make analysis, oh, we're not gonna do that, like when OpenAI said, we're not planning to be a merchant of record trying to or we're not even gonna keep in this app type of way of doing commerce. We're not doing it. Then people say, oh, well, I was wrong. I'm not gonna worry about it as much. It flips the other side.
Speaker 112:49 - 13:10
然后当人们开始做分析时,就会说,哦,事情不会那样发展。比如当 OpenAI 说,我们不打算成为 merchant of record(交易记录上的法定商户),也不打算继续采用这种在 app 里完成 commerce 的方式,我们不做这个。然后人们就会说,哦,好吧,我之前判断错了,我没必要那么担心了。于是风向又翻到了另一边。
Speaker 113:10 - 13:32
The truth is the way we look at AI is an incredible beneficial tool and a way for us to be able to do our mission easier, hopefully cheaper, and better for our customers. All business. What is the purpose of a business? A business is to do something of value to its customers. We have two kinds of customers.
Speaker 113:10 - 13:32
事实是,我们看待 AI 的方式是:它是一个极其有益的工具,也是一种能让我们更容易——希望也更便宜——并且更好地完成我们使命、服务客户的方法。所有 business 的根本是什么?business 的目的是为客户做有价值的事情。我们有两类客户。
Speaker 113:32 - 13:59
We've got travelers and we've got partners. Are in the middle of that for a marketplace. How can we do it better? AI, particularly AI using, large language models and other things like that can help make it a much more valuable method for people, travelers to get information they need to do what they wanna do and beneficial to our partners. That's the thing.
Speaker 113:32 - 13:59
我们有 travelers,也有 partners。作为一个 marketplace(平台型市场),我们处在这两者中间。我们怎样才能做得更好?AI,尤其是使用 large language models(大语言模型)之类技术的 AI,可以帮助把这件事变成一种更有价值的方式,让 travelers 获得他们为完成自己想做的事所需要的信息,同时也让我们的 partners 受益。这才是关键。
Speaker 113:59 - 14:08
Now the idea of chat TV, you know, telling me no longer having one method. I mean, I wouldn't read too much into that one way or the other. Mhmm.
Speaker 113:59 - 14:08
至于 chat TV 这个想法,就是说不再只有一种方式来告诉我怎么做——我的意思是,我不会对这件事朝任何一个方向作过度解读。嗯。
Speaker 214:08 - 14:20
Yeah. That makes sense. You know, it's interesting because I'm in the middle of Silicon Valley where people are very AGI pills. Right? People strongly believe that AI will drive all sorts of things, and in some cases, will.
Speaker 214:08 - 14:20
对,这说得通。你知道,这很有意思,因为我身处 Silicon Valley,这里的人对 AGI 非常上头。对吧?人们强烈相信 AI 会推动各种各样的事情,而在某些情况下,确实会。
Speaker 214:20 - 14:41
And in some cases, it'll take longer. In some cases, it won't. You know, it reminds me a little bit of crypto where crypto was gonna solve everything, and it didn't, but it was very important for certain aspects of the financial system. And I think stablecoins and other things are increasingly viable there. On the AI side, what a lot of people are really moving towards is more agentic work, and that could be specific companies like Decagon having agents to do customer support.
Speaker 214:20 - 14:41
而在另一些情况下,它会花更长时间;还有一些情况下,它根本不会发生。这有点让我想起 crypto——当时大家觉得 crypto 会解决一切问题,结果并没有,但它在金融体系的某些方面又确实非常重要。我认为 stablecoins 和其他一些东西在那里正变得越来越可行。而在 AI 这边,很多人真正正在转向的是更偏 agentic 的工作方式,比如像 Decagon 这样的公司,用 agents 来做 customer support。
Speaker 214:41 - 15:22
But it's also the larger platforms like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etcetera, providing increasingly self driven systems, codecs or Cloud Cowork or, you know, some of the things Gemini is doing. And one of the arguments people are making is that the nature of UI is going to change, and you're going to have agents doing transactions on your behalf and sourcing things like trips or figuring out your travel itinerary for you or buying or purchasing the actual different aspects of travel. A, do you think that's a correct vision of the world? And, b, do you think or how do you view that interacting with booking and what you all provide as a service?
Speaker 214:41 - 15:22
但同时,也包括像 OpenAI、Anthropic、Google 等这样的大型平台,它们正在提供越来越多自主驱动的系统、codecs、Cloud Cowork,或者说,Gemini 正在做的一些事情。人们提出的一个观点是,UI(用户界面)的本质将会改变,你将会有 agent(智能代理)代表你去完成交易、帮你寻找比如旅行这样的事项、为你规划旅行行程,或者购买旅行中实际涉及的不同环节。A,你认为这是一种对世界的正确判断吗?以及,B,你认为——或者你如何看待——这会如何与 booking 以及你们所提供的服务发生互动?
Speaker 115:23 - 15:42
So again, we wanna reduce this to understanding what does the customer want. Many people with travel find it very frustrating. I know that. People that will travel find very frustrating. Trying to put together a complicated trip with family, let's say, multiple destinations, different things you wanna do.
Speaker 115:23 - 15:42
所以,还是那句话,我们想把这件事归结为理解客户到底想要什么。很多人在旅行这件事上会感到非常沮丧。我知道这一点。要出行的人会觉得这非常令人挫败。比如说,要和家人一起安排一次复杂的旅行,涉及多个目的地、你还想做各种不同的事情。
Speaker 115:42 - 15:52
It's complex. It's pain. You start planning it, then you stop because it's just too much of a pain. And everybody would like something else. Many people would like something else to do it for them.
Speaker 115:42 - 15:52
这很复杂。这很痛苦。你开始规划,然后又停下来,因为实在太折磨人了。而且每个人想要的东西都不一样。很多人会希望有别的东西替他们把这件事做掉。
Speaker 115:53 - 16:14
In fact, that's why you'll find very wealthy people have travel concierge people who are actual human beings who really understand the needs of that customer, what they really like and not, and they will do a lot of the hard work for them. People aren't quite in that wealth zone. They'll have there's a partner or their spouse trying to it for them. I'll be perfectly honest. I'm exposing myself here, but I'll say it.
Speaker 115:53 - 16:14
事实上,这就是为什么你会发现,非常富有的人会有 travel concierge(旅行礼宾)人员,这些都是真正的人,他们非常了解那位客户的需求,知道他们真正喜欢什么、不喜欢什么,并且会替他们做掉很多繁重的工作。没那么富有的人呢,通常就会有——比如伴侣或者配偶——试着替他们处理这些事。我完全坦白地说,我这是在自曝其短,但我还是要这么说。
Speaker 116:14 - 16:29
Okay? My wife and I sometimes argue about, okay. Who's gonna have to do all the travel planning for this trip? Because it can be frustrating, etcetera. Now with AI, the beauty is it's gonna make it so much easier, and it's doing it right now.
Speaker 116:14 - 16:29
好吧?我和我妻子有时候会为这个争论:好吧,这次旅行到底谁来做所有的行程规划?因为这件事确实会让人很沮丧,诸如此类。现在有了 AI(人工智能),美妙之处就在于,它会让这件事变得容易得多,而且它现在已经在这么做了。
Speaker 116:29 - 16:56
We are doing it right now. And let's use that generic term. Let's call it an agent. So I can't wait until we, Booking Holdings in our companies, are offering up these personalized agents that are they know everything about you, everything you want, and able to do so much more for you than any human travel agent could ever do because the machine never forgets anything. The machine has an infinite amount of permutation.
Speaker 116:29 - 16:56
我们现在就在这么做。我们就用那个通用术语吧,就叫它 agent(智能代理)。所以我非常期待,直到我们——Booking Holdings 及旗下各家公司——推出这些个性化 agent:它们了解关于你的一切,了解你想要的一切,并且能为你做的事情会比任何人类旅行代理都多得多,因为机器什么都不会忘记。机器拥有近乎无限的 permutation(组合变化)能力。
Speaker 116:56 - 17:04
It rapidly look through and choose what is the best thing, and it can go down and then back up. That doesn't work. Why? This doesn't fit that well. Can come back with it.
Speaker 116:56 - 17:04
它可以快速浏览并选择什么才是最好的方案,它也可以往下钻再退回来。这个不行。为什么?这个不太匹配。然后再带着结果返回给你。
Speaker 117:04 - 17:26
Now, people always want some agency, so they make the decision themselves or at least confirm they want it. Most people aren't, for the most part, a complicated thing. They're going to want it to double check them, check them, whatever, which is different than say a business person says, gotta go from New York to Chicago. And, you know, your assistant, your human assistant, right now, is doing it for you. That's like an agent doing it for you.
Speaker 117:04 - 17:26
当然,人们总还是希望保有一些 agency(自主决定权),所以最终还是由他们自己做决定,或者至少确认他们想要这个结果。大多数人在大多数情况下,并不是那种特别复杂的情形。他们会希望系统替他们复核、帮他们检查,诸如此类。这和比如一个商务人士说“我得从 New York 去 Chicago”是不一样的。然后你知道,现在是你的 assistant(助理)、你的人类助理,在替你处理这件事。这就像是一个 agent 在替你做这件事。
Speaker 117:26 - 17:35
He knows what flight you need and all that. That's great. Yeah. But when it's complicated, you want that agency. So we at Booking Holdings, all our companies, we are doing that right now.
Speaker 117:26 - 17:35
它知道你需要什么航班之类的一切。这很棒,没错。但当情况变复杂时,你会希望有那种 agency(自主处理能力)。所以我们 Booking Holdings 旗下所有公司现在都在做这件事。
Speaker 117:35 - 17:59
In fact, if you go to Penny, which is Priceline's agentic AI system, and I just did it the other night. I put in a very complex need for a travel with the family where it was my wife and I, we wanna go up in front of the bus. I want the young adults who are adults, but don't think so. I want them in the back of the bus. They're starting.
Speaker 117:35 - 17:59
事实上,如果你去用 Penny,也就是 Priceline 的 agentic AI system(智能体式 AI 系统)——我前几天晚上刚试过。我输入了一个非常复杂的家庭旅行需求:我和我妻子想坐在“巴士前面”,而那些已经是成年人、但自己并不这么觉得的年轻人,我想让他们坐在“巴士后面”。他们现在正开始独立。
Speaker 117:59 - 18:09
So I got two cabins now. There are one person has to go back to a different city. We're going to Europe. We're going to a city. We're not we're not actually doing the trip from that city where we're gonna land.
Speaker 117:59 - 18:09
所以现在我需要订两个 cabins(舱位/住宿单元)了。而且其中有一个人还得返回另一个城市。我们要去 Europe,要去一座城市,但我们实际并不是从落地的那座城市开始这趟行程。
Speaker 118:09 - 18:19
How are gonna get from where we go? Should we have the hotel where we land and then travel the next day to the other city, or should we go that night? How are gonna do it? What restaurant? All the thing.
Speaker 118:09 - 18:19
那我们到了之后该怎么走?我们是应该先住在落地城市的 hotel(酒店),然后第二天再去另一座城市,还是当晚就过去?我们该怎么安排?餐厅选什么?所有这些事情。
Speaker 118:19 - 18:39
And I didn't on Priceline, Penny, and it was incredible. I also added another things. I told it that, by the way, I got a lot of frequent flyer miles. So should I be using my miles or should I use it cash and for which ones? And it was just beautiful how it went back and forth and asked me questions like, how many miles do you have with each airline that I'm giving it?
Speaker 118:19 - 18:39
我就在 Priceline 的 Penny 上这么做了,结果非常惊艳。我还补充了别的信息。我告诉它,顺便说一下,我有很多 frequent flyer miles(常旅客里程)。那我应该用里程,还是该用现金?分别在哪些航段上用更合适?它来回和我交流的方式非常漂亮,还会问我问题,比如:你提供的这些 airline(航空公司)里,你在每家各有多少里程?
Speaker 118:39 - 18:56
And then we're going through the flight part and how much of the cost. By the way, ended up, as I suspected, I'm using my miles for the upfront part for my wife and I. We're paying cash for the kids on our flights. We're going go to the hotel in the city that we landed. The next day, we're going to get a shelf.
Speaker 118:39 - 18:56
然后我们就继续梳理航班部分,以及各项费用。顺便说一下,结果和我原先猜的一样:我和我妻子去程前段用里程;孩子们的航班我们付现金。我们会先住在落地城市的 hotel,第二天再去租一辆车。
Speaker 118:56 - 19:10
Was wonderful. It was wonderful. And that's what we want even more so. Here's the real important thing is when things go wrong and things go wrong in travel, nobody's fault. Many times, weather, mechanics, it happens.
Speaker 118:56 - 19:10
太棒了,真的太棒了。而且这正是我们更想做到的事。真正重要的一点是:当事情出错的时候——而旅行中事情确实会出错,而且很多时候并不是任何人的错,可能是天气、机械故障,这种事就是会发生。
Speaker 119:10 - 19:24
Okay? You wanna have that one point of contact that can everything because travel is like dominoes. One thing falls over, and it all starts falling over. And that's the beauty with AI being able to figure out being able to look ahead. What can we do?
Speaker 119:10 - 19:24
对吧?你会希望有那一个 point of contact(统一对接点)能处理一切,因为旅行就像多米诺骨牌。一件事倒下,后面就会开始全都跟着倒。这正是 AI 的美妙之处:它能够推演、能够提前看见接下来会发生什么。我们能做什么?
Speaker 119:24 - 19:37
My goal is to have a system that actually we are able to predict well enough what the problem will be before it happens and suggest changing things. I have so many examples of this, but I see the future.
Speaker 119:24 - 19:37
我的目标是建立这样一个系统:在问题发生之前,我们就能足够准确地预测问题会是什么,并建议做出调整。对此我有很多例子,但我看得到未来。
Speaker 219:37 - 20:14
I guess at a sort of generic level, because your team on a call that we had prior said that Penny adoption, which again is this agentic tool that you've built for Priceline, has doubled every month for the past past few months. And it's generated a lift in conversion plus faster search, shorter path to booking, lower cancellation, higher customer success. So it seems like it's working in really interesting ways. Are there a common set of use cases that you think are most common for Penny? Are there you know, specific things that it doesn't do well that you just need the underlying models to get better for?
Speaker 219:37 - 20:14
我想从一个比较通用的层面来问,因为你们团队在我们之前的一次通话里提到,Penny adoption——也就是你们为 Priceline 构建的这个 agentic tool——在过去几个月里每个月都翻倍增长。而且它带来了 conversion(转化率)提升、更快的搜索、更短的预订路径、更低的取消率,以及更高的客户成功率。所以看起来它正以一些非常有意思的方式发挥作用。你认为,对 Penny 来说,最常见的是不是有一组共通的 use case(使用场景)?还有没有一些它目前做得不太好的具体事情,只是需要底层 model(模型)进一步变强才能解决?
Speaker 220:14 - 20:14
I'm a little bit curious though.
Speaker 220:14 - 20:14
不过我还是有点好奇。
Speaker 120:14 - 20:36
Well, the actual we just have some areas where we're we're coming out with some new things on it, but here's something really important. So when you ask me the questions, when you say it's so great, but you tell me it's not really doing much to, you know, the numbers. It doesn't really show up much in the numbers yet because it's still really, really small in terms of the absolute number. We ain't gotta talk scale here. You know, last year, we did a $186,000,000,000 worth of travel.
Speaker 120:14 - 20:36
嗯,实际上,我们确实有一些领域正在围绕它推出新东西,但这里有一点非常重要。所以当你问我这些问题、当你说这东西很棒时,你同时也在告诉我,它似乎还没有真正对数据指标产生太大影响。它现在在数字上确实还不太明显,因为从绝对数量来看,它仍然非常非常小。我们得谈 scale(规模)才行。你知道,去年我们做了价值 $186,000,000,000 的旅游业务。
Speaker 120:37 - 20:51
That that's a lot of travel. You don't get over a billion room nights. So the actual numbers, so why? Well, part of it is we're not pushing it really fully. There's one of the issues that I always wanna think about is what's the cost of this?
Speaker 120:37 - 20:51
那可是一大笔旅游业务。你不会轻易做到超过十亿个 room nights(间夜)。所以从实际数字来看,为什么会这样?嗯,部分原因是我们还没有真正全力去推它。我一直想思考的一个问题是:这件事的成本到底是多少?
Speaker 120:51 - 20:59
And that's not so easy to understand. What is the cost? That's what's developing of running it. How many tokens are we consuming? Where?
Speaker 120:51 - 20:59
而这一点并不那么容易搞清楚。成本到底是什么?运行它的开发成本是多少?我们消耗了多少 token(令牌)?消耗发生在哪里?
Speaker 120:59 - 21:13
Where? Where? How many times are they coming back and forth or doing? Tell me how much was the cost of us getting that trip for that person, and what is our ROI going to be? Then the next thing is, well, what's the return long term?
Speaker 120:59 - 21:13
在哪里?在哪里?它们来来回回了多少次,或者都做了什么?告诉我,我们为那个人拿下那趟行程的成本到底是多少,以及我们的 ROI(投资回报率)会是多少。然后下一个问题是,长期回报又是什么?
Speaker 121:13 - 21:18
Did it mean lifetime value? Did they come back? Are the loyalties up or what? How much? And will it change?
Speaker 121:13 - 21:18
这是否意味着 lifetime value(生命周期价值)?他们会回来吗?loyalty(忠诚度)会上升吗,还是什么?会增加多少?而且它会变化吗?
Speaker 121:18 - 21:30
These are things that we don't know yet that we're gonna have to do. We need to work on develop till we know. And by the way, the whole thing of token economics now, which model should we be using? For which purpose? And when?
Speaker 121:18 - 21:30
这些是我们目前还不知道、但将来必须去做的事情。我们需要继续开发(develop),直到弄清楚为止。顺便说一句,现在整个 token economics(token 经济学)这件事,到底该用哪种模型?分别适用于什么目的?又该在什么时候用?
Speaker 121:31 - 21:50
And stuff. You know, obviously, you can get tokens a lot cheaper and certain parts to different models, and they're a lot cheaper. And that's something that we have to look at very closely too. So it is fascinating that we can do things that I I'm so thrilled that we do. Like, for example, things like using customer service right now.
Speaker 121:31 - 21:50
还有这些事情。你知道,很显然,你可以用低得多的成本拿到 tokens,而且某些部分可以采用不同的模型,成本会便宜很多。这也是我们必须非常仔细研究的一点。所以这很令人着迷:我们现在确实能做一些事情,而我对此非常兴奋。比如说,像现在把它用在 customer service(客户服务)这样的场景。
Speaker 121:50 - 22:06
Customer service where we're using AI, it's it's great. It happens much faster. You you know, instead of having to staff your humans and at peak time, somebody's got to wait for somebody to pick up. We've all been in that line. In that queue, waiting for someone to pick up, and we hate it.
Speaker 121:50 - 22:06
在 customer service 中使用 AI,效果非常好。处理速度快得多。你知道,以前你得安排人工团队值守,一到高峰时段,就总得有人等着别人接电话。我们都经历过那种场面——排着队,等着有人接起电话,而我们都讨厌那样。
Speaker 122:06 - 22:36
But now with AI, the computer can pick it up. It's not a problem. And solve the problem even better and faster, than you never will have in the future. When you finally talk to a human, the human says, I'm sorry, you'll have to be on hold again while I get somebody else who can solve that problem, which you by then you wanna throttle somebody, AI will solve that problem. But here's the question again about that is sometimes though, you want to figure out because people want to talk to humans sometimes.
Speaker 122:06 - 22:36
但现在有了 AI,computer(计算机)可以直接接起处理,这不是问题。而且它解决问题的效果和速度,都会比未来你能遇到的情况更好、更快。等你终于和真人通上话时,对方却说:“抱歉,我得让你再等一会儿,我去找另一个能解决这个问题的人。”到那时候你简直想掐死谁了,而 AI 会把这个问题解决掉。不过,这里又有一个问题:有时候你还是得想清楚,因为人们有时就是想和真人交谈。
Speaker 122:36 - 22:49
You got to balance that because what you don't want to do is end up, yeah, you can do it all AI, but actually that's not what the customer wants. And in the end, it's always what's best for the customer.
Speaker 122:36 - 22:49
这中间必须做好平衡,因为你不希望最后变成这样:没错,全部都可以用 AI 来做,但实际上那并不是客户真正想要的。归根结底,永远都是以什么对客户最好为准。
Speaker 222:49 - 22:56
Yeah. That makes sense. And I I think you said on your q one call that customer service costs are already down about 10%. Well, we For reservation and
Speaker 222:49 - 22:56
对,这很有道理。我想你在第一季度电话会上说过,customer service 成本已经下降了大约 10%。嗯,我们——对于 reservation(预订)和
Speaker 122:56 - 23:10
Let's booking security about 10 just go let's go this just this Our costs per customer service per contact are down. Mhmm. Mhmm. That's great. Customer satisfaction is up.
Speaker 122:56 - 23:10
就 booking security 来说,大概是 10%——这么说吧,就说这个:我们每次 customer service 接触的单位成本下降了。嗯。嗯。这很棒。而且客户满意度上升了。
Speaker 123:10 - 23:23
That's even better. But we have to make sure that we are able to always recognize some customers want a human being and some customers are, you know, you're happy as could be just through AI.
Speaker 123:10 - 23:23
那就更好了。但我们必须确保自己始终能够识别:有些客户想要真人服务,而有些客户则完全可以、也非常乐意只通过 AI 来完成。
Speaker 223:24 - 23:39
Yeah. That makes sense. I mean, I I think you also mentioned that you're investing something like $550,000,000 of cost savings into AI and platform on that on that same quarterly call. Where are you investing it, or where where are you putting the brunt of that, both capital and effort?
Speaker 223:24 - 23:39
嗯,这说得通。我的意思是,我记得你也提到过,在同一次季度电话会上,你们会把大约 $550,000,000 的成本节省投入到 AI 和 platform(平台)上。你们具体投向哪里,或者说,资金和精力的重点主要放在哪些地方?
Speaker 123:39 - 24:03
Yeah. So we and and the amount we're investing is actually higher. We talked about 700,000,000 approximately this year is being invested, but it's in many, many different areas, just, you know, developing more AI. Though AI, there's definitely money going to, call it tech enablement, but there are different projects, different areas. I would not put that all into and say, oh, you're investing in techno old and and AI.
Speaker 123:39 - 24:03
对。实际上,我们投入的金额还更高。我们提到过,今年大约会投资 700,000,000,但这会分布在很多很多不同的领域,比如继续开发更多 AI。虽然 AI 确实会获得一部分资金,也可以把它称作 tech enablement,但实际上还有不同的项目、不同的方向。我不会把这些全部归到一起,然后说,哦,你们就是在投资技术和 AI。
Speaker 124:03 - 24:14
That's not correct. There are lots of areas of investment. We talked to them on the call. That's not what's important is the idea that but you've got savings. You've got money.
Speaker 124:03 - 24:14
这不准确。投资领域有很多。我们在电话会上也谈到了这些。真正重要的不是这个,而是这样一个问题:你现在有了节省下来的成本,你手里有资金。
Speaker 124:14 - 24:30
You've got cash flow. How much should you be putting in reinvesting in the company? How much should you be looking perhaps acquisitions? And how much should we handing back to shareholders? And that's always a balance, trying to figure out what's the right ratio, what is it.
Speaker 124:14 - 24:30
你有 cash flow(现金流)。那么,你应该拿出多少再投资到公司里?又应该拿出多少去考虑可能的 acquisitions(收购)?还有多少应该返还给 shareholders(股东)?这始终是一种平衡,要努力找出正确的比例,到底该怎么分配。
Speaker 124:30 - 24:48
It really is the first thing is, do we believe investing in the company is gonna give a positive ROI that's sufficient to justify doing that? Or after that, are there acquisitions? And if you can't do either of those, then get the money back to the shareholders because they can then invest it better than you can. And that's what I've always believed in.
Speaker 124:30 - 24:48
其实首先要看的是,我们是否相信投资公司本身能带来足够正向的 ROI(投资回报率),高到足以证明这样做是合理的。其次,再看有没有合适的 acquisitions(收购)。如果这两件事都做不了,那就把钱还给 shareholders(股东),因为那样他们可能会比你更有效地使用这些钱。这一直是我的信念。
Speaker 224:48 - 24:57
Mhmm. Makes a lot of sense. And I think you you folks did something like a record 4,000,000,000 in q one in terms of buybacks and other sort of returns to investors.
Speaker 224:48 - 24:57
嗯,这很有道理。而且我想,你们在 q one 的 buybacks(回购)和其他向投资者返还资本的项目上,应该创下了大约 4,000,000,000 的纪录。
Speaker 124:57 - 25:17
You know, I really am very proud of the fact that over the last, let's say, dozen years or so, we've bought back approximately 40% of the outstanding share. That's good. And we offer a dividend. We have a nice dividend. So in the fourth quarter, it was we bought back $3,600,000,000 worth of stock.
Speaker 124:57 - 25:17
你知道,我确实非常自豪的一点是,在过去大约十二年里,我们回购了大约 40% 的流通股。这很好。而且我们还发放 dividend(股息),我们的股息也相当不错。所以在第四季度,我们回购了价值 $3,600,000,000 的股票。
Speaker 125:17 - 26:01
We gave out approximately, you over 300,000,000 in a a dividend. And in addition, we also were paying for the taxes for the equity grants that vested in the know, paying the taxes to do it by withholding shares that part of the vest. That's another 300,000,000 or A lot of money making sure it's going back to the shareholders if we don't think that we can use it properly ourselves. That's I've I've been really and this got me from an investment banking background, maybe back then or maybe trading, where companies that just build up huge amounts of cash and they're not doing anything with it and they're not giving it back to their shareholders. I'm like, that doesn't seem like the right thing.
Speaker 125:17 - 26:01
我们还发放了大约超过 300,000,000 的 dividend(股息)。此外,我们也在为已经 vest(归属)的 equity grants(股权授予)支付相关税款,做法是从归属的那部分里预扣股票来缴税。这又是 300,000,000 左右。总之,这是一大笔钱,核心是在于:如果我们认为自己无法妥善使用这些资金,就要确保它们回到 shareholders(股东)手中。对此我一直很有感触——这可能来自我以前做 investment banking(投资银行)或者 trading(交易)的背景。因为有些公司囤积了巨额现金,既不用来做事,也不返还给股东。我会觉得,那看起来并不是正确的做法。
Speaker 226:01 - 26:28
I think one last thing that you mentioned earlier, one thing that you mentioned earlier that I thought was really important is just the scale of your business. And I think it's at an enormous scale, and that's kind of underappreciated as an asset. And so as an example, you closed 2025 with what I believe is 8,600,000 alternative accommodation listings. So that's people listing homes or rooms or other things for rentals. It could be a variety of different types of of spots.
Speaker 226:01 - 26:28
我想你之前提到的最后一点里,有一件事我觉得真的很重要,那就是你们业务的规模。我认为它的规模非常巨大,而这一点作为一种资产,其价值有点被低估了。举个例子,你们在 2025 年底有我认为 8,600,000 个 alternative accommodation listing(非标住宿房源)。也就是人们把房子、房间或其他可出租的空间挂出来出租,类型可以非常多样。
Speaker 226:28 - 26:48
But that creates a really interesting, I think, durable asset. So, you know, I feel like people overstate sometimes how AI is gonna transform certain businesses. It's obviously gonna be transforming everything. But there are also things that are very hard to build and that are very durable in the long run that if you have an agent that's gonna go and book an alternative accommodation with you because you have all them listed. Right?
Speaker 226:28 - 26:48
但我认为,这创造了一项非常有意思、而且持久的资产。所以,你知道,我觉得人们有时会夸大 AI 将如何改造某些业务。它显然会改造一切。但也有一些东西是非常难以建立、而且长期来看非常持久的。比如,如果你有一个 agent(智能代理)要去预订 alternative accommodation,而它会找你,因为你那里把这些房源都列出来了。对吧?
Speaker 226:48 - 26:53
You have the marketplace built. Are there other aspects of your business that you view as especially durable going into this era?
Speaker 226:48 - 26:53
你们已经把 marketplace(平台型市场)建起来了。那在进入这个时代时,你们业务中还有哪些方面是你认为特别持久的?
Speaker 126:53 - 27:09
So on that one, it it it is a good point. I think you're right. I think it's underappreciated by some people. Probably, I'd say Americans. Because in the alternative accommodations area, obviously, a big player is someone who invested in very early Airbnb.
Speaker 126:53 - 27:09
关于这一点,这这这确实是个好问题。我觉得你说得对。我认为有些人低估了这一点。大概可以说是 Americans。因为在 alternative accommodations 这个领域里,显然有一个重要玩家,就是很早就投资了 Airbnb 的那家公司。
Speaker 127:09 - 27:45
Congratulations your part. But a lot of people don't recognize that globally, when you look at our amount of listings and you look at Airbnb, it's not that different. And even more so is when you look at our total amount of transactions, our room night for an alternative company, you look at what, you see that we are approximately three quarters the size of Airbnb, and that's just our alternative accommodation. We're the whole much bigger hotel business on top of that. And and, you know, over the last five years, we've been growing for the last five years, we've grown faster than Airbnb in the alternative accommodation area.
Speaker 127:09 - 27:45
也恭喜你。不过很多人没有意识到,从全球来看,当你比较我们的房源数量和 Airbnb 的房源数量时,差距其实并没有那么大。更进一步说,当你看我们的交易总量、我们在 alternative accommodation 业务上的 room night(间夜)时,你会发现,我们大约相当于 Airbnb 规模的四分之三,而且这还只是我们的 alternative accommodation 业务。除此之外,我们还有整体上大得多的 hotel 业务。而且,你知道,在过去五年里,我们在 alternative accommodation 领域的增长速度一直快于 Airbnb。
Speaker 127:45 - 28:04
We do like to like. We've growing faster for the last five years. So it's a great product, great thing. It's going very well. Your question though, does that give us an advantage, so to speak, against somebody who comes in, all they're doing is creating a nice AI intensive type system and how are gonna get the connectivity to these players or not?
Speaker 127:45 - 28:04
我们确实喜欢这一点。过去五年我们一直增长得更快。所以这是个很棒的产品,是件很棒的事情,发展得非常好。不过你的问题是,这是否会让我们相对于那些新进入者拥有某种优势?比如说,对方所做的一切就是打造一个很好的、AI 密集型的系统,那他们要怎么和这些参与方建立 connectivity(连接能力),或者说,他们能不能建立起来?
Speaker 128:04 - 28:22
And I'll say, there is no such thing as a moat. There is no such thing as somewhere you're gonna be protected against innovation. And that's what I try and get across to the team. I've got 25,000 employees. I try and get this across to everybody that every day we've gotta be fighting.
Speaker 128:04 - 28:22
我要说的是,并不存在所谓的 moat(护城河)。也不存在某个地方能让你免受创新冲击。这个是我一直努力向团队传达的。我有 25,000 名员工。我努力让每个人都明白,我们每天都必须战斗。
Speaker 128:23 - 28:43
And, yeah, today, we have a competitive advantage on areas. Absolutely. But those can go away tomorrow. The only way to wait the only window in the long term is to continue to develop new services, new ways to do things, come up with this agentic travel assistant that I want this university that will make it so much better. That's the only way.
Speaker 128:23 - 28:43
是的,今天我们在一些领域确实拥有 competitive advantage(竞争优势),绝对如此。但这些优势明天就可能消失。长期来看,唯一能赢的方法,唯一的窗口,就是持续开发新的服务、新的做事方式,打造我想要的这种 agentic travel assistant(代理式旅行助手),以及这种能力体系,让它变得好得多。这是唯一的办法。
Speaker 128:43 - 29:00
Working on the other side, by the way, also very important with the partner to ways that we're helping them a lot. Again, a lot of people understand the complexity involved. It's not just getting the inventory loaded into some database. Anybody can do that. That's nothing.
Speaker 128:43 - 29:00
顺便说一句,在另一端与合作伙伴协作也非常重要,我们也在很多方面给他们提供了大量帮助。再说一次,很多人其实并不了解其中涉及的复杂性。这不只是把库存导入某个数据库那么简单。那谁都能做,根本不算什么。
Speaker 129:00 - 29:12
We got thousands of people who are dealing with hotels and other property managers. How can we do your business better? What do you need? Where you need more demand? Where are you hurting?
Speaker 129:00 - 29:12
我们有成千上万的人在对接 hotels 和其他 property managers(物业管理方)。我们怎样才能把你的业务做得更好?你需要什么?你在哪些地方需要更多需求?你哪里正承受压力?
Speaker 129:12 - 29:34
What can we do in terms your systems better? It's so much more complex than I believe many other people who look at this industry from afar and work secondly. This is something really people don't understand. This is the regulatory framework around the world. Dealing with travel is a very highly regulated now it's not a bank.
Speaker 129:12 - 29:34
就改进你们的 systems(系统)而言,我们还能做什么?这件事的复杂程度,远远超过许多只是隔岸观火、从外部看这个行业的人所相信的那样。还有一点是人们真的不了解的:那就是全球各地的监管框架。做 travel(旅游出行业务)是一个受到高度监管的领域——当然它不是银行业。
Speaker 129:34 - 29:51
Okay. Got it. And it's not an air claim, you know, airlines such that, or it's, you know, not drug discount, but it is very regulated. And it's complex and you've gotta meet it. And if you wanna be murky of record in travel, you gotta adhere to a whole bunch of rules, etcetera.
Speaker 129:34 - 29:51
好,明白了。而且它也不是 air claim,或者说不像 airlines 那样,也不是 drug discount 之类的业务,但它确实受到严格监管。而且这很复杂,你必须满足这些要求。如果你想在 travel 领域做 merchant of record(名义商户 / 交易记录商户),那你就得遵守一整套规则,等等。
Speaker 129:51 - 30:18
And by the way, around the world, much more than The US, around the world, those regulations are increasing. Or not saying so exponentially, but let's say they're increasing. That too is something that if you're big at scale, you can afford to deal with that. And if you think you're just gonna come in and do this business and knock away these very big players, I'd say you should really understand what the business is before you decide to commit your capital.
Speaker 129:51 - 30:18
顺便说一句,在全球范围内——而且比 The US 更明显——这些监管都在增加。我不是说是指数级增长,但至少可以说它们正在增加。这也是一件只有当你规模足够大时,才负担得起去应对的事。如果你觉得自己可以直接进入这个行业,把这些体量很大的玩家都打掉,我会说,在你决定投入资本之前,你最好先真正弄清楚这个行业到底是什么样。
Speaker 230:19 - 30:31
So I guess if you reflect on life or you reflect on things looking forward because, I mean, you've had an incredible run. Right? And the run is by no means over. You know? You still have so much stuff you're working on and doing.
Speaker 230:19 - 30:31
所以我想,如果你回顾人生,或者展望未来——因为,毕竟,你已经取得了不可思议的一段发展。对吧?而且这段发展远没有结束。你知道的,你手头还有那么多事情在推进、在做。
Speaker 130:31 - 30:35
In fact, I think we're just a good start. No. See, this is I tell you, mate.
Speaker 130:31 - 30:35
事实上,我觉得我们现在才只是一个不错的开始。不是。你看,这就是我想告诉你的,mate。
Speaker 230:35 - 30:35
Yeah. Is the most
Speaker 230:35 - 30:35
对。是最……
Speaker 130:35 - 30:41
exciting time ever, ever because of the ability to build these new things.
Speaker 130:35 - 30:41
这是有史以来最令人兴奋的时刻,真的是,因为我们有能力去构建这些新东西。
Speaker 230:41 - 30:50
Yeah. I agree. I mean, I think this is a transformative moment- Totally. In terms of just technology and the world and society and everything else. And, you know, it's so exciting to be in the middle of all this.
Speaker 230:41 - 30:50
对,我同意。我的意思是,我觉得这是一个具有变革性的时刻——完全是。无论是就技术而言,还是就这个世界、社会以及其他一切而言。而且,你知道,能身处这一切的中心,真的非常令人兴奋。
Speaker 230:50 - 31:06
And obviously, you all are playing a really prominent role in one aspect of that or a key aspect. You know, you joined Priceline to your point when it was in the hundreds of millions. The stock is now, you know, dollars 130,000,000,000 plus company. It was 180,000,000,000 earlier in the year. I'm sure it'll go back there over time given, you know, all the things we're working on.
Speaker 230:50 - 31:06
很显然,你们大家在其中一个方面、或者说一个关键方面,正扮演着非常重要的角色。你知道,就像你提到的那样,你加入 Priceline 的时候,它的规模还只是几亿美元。现在这只股票背后的公司,你知道,已经是一家市值 130,000,000,000 美元以上的公司了。今年早些时候还到过 180,000,000,000。考虑到我们正在推进的所有这些事情,我相信随着时间推移,它会回到那个水平。
Speaker 231:06 - 31:06
Fingers crossed.
Speaker 231:06 - 31:06
希望如此。
Speaker 131:06 - 31:08
If we do what we're supposed to do.
Speaker 131:06 - 31:08
如果我们做好我们该做的事的话。
Speaker 231:08 - 31:41
How do you think about just what you hope to accomplish more broadly in life? Or what is the right measure of a person of an outcome or of the next few years? I'm just sort of curious because we chatted very briefly earlier, and I felt like you're somebody who's thought deeply about more than just, you know, how will I drive bookings forward? Although, obviously, you think about that quite a bit. I'm just sort of curious, like, you know, what is the right measure in general that you're measuring yourself against or how are you thinking about the next couple of years?
Speaker 231:08 - 31:41
你是如何看待自己更广义上希望在人生中实现什么的?或者说,衡量一个人、一个结果,或者未来几年的正确标准是什么?我只是有点好奇,因为我们之前很简短地聊过,我感觉你是那种认真思考过很多事情的人,而不只是,你知道,“我该如何推动 bookings 增长?”当然,很明显,你确实也会经常思考这个。我只是有点好奇,就是,你知道,整体来说,什么才是你用来衡量自己的合适标准,或者你是如何看待接下来这几年的?
Speaker 131:41 - 31:59
Yeah. Well, look, I'm very blessed. I've been very lucky in my life that I'm in a business where I could pretty much do what I'd like to do. And sometimes people ask me, why do you continue to do what you're doing? And I said, because I think part of this is doing something good.
Speaker 131:41 - 31:59
对。嗯,你看,我非常有福气。我的人生一直很幸运,我所处的这个行业让我基本上可以去做我想做的事。有时候人们会问我,你为什么还要继续做你现在在做的事情?我会说,因为我觉得其中一部分是在做一些好事。
Speaker 131:59 - 32:09
And, yeah, we're not curing cancer. I know that. But I think that travel is a very important thing for a lot of people. It really adds to their their lives. You know, we can do it better.
Speaker 131:59 - 32:09
而且,是的,我们不是在治愈癌症,我知道这一点。但我认为,travel(旅行)对很多人来说是一件非常重要的事。它确实会丰富他们的生活。你知道,我们可以把它做得更好。
Speaker 132:09 - 32:26
Look. Our mission is to make it easier for everybody to experience the world, and I believe that does improve everybody. It improves the world by getting people to travel more, experience other cultures, other people, etcetera. And we can do it right and make it easier. That's great.
Speaker 132:09 - 32:26
听着。我们的使命是让每个人都更容易去体验这个世界,而我相信这确实会让每个人都变得更好。它会通过让人们更多地旅行、体验其他文化、接触其他人等等,来让这个世界变得更好。而且我们可以把这件事做好,并让它变得更容易。这很棒。
Speaker 132:26 - 32:35
I wanna be part. I wanna help do that. I do believe that's adding something. And, that's part of the everybody needs to understand, I believe. Why are you doing what you're doing?
Speaker 132:26 - 32:35
我想参与其中。我想帮助实现这件事。我确实相信这是在增加一些有价值的东西。而且,我认为这也是每个人都需要明白的一部分。你为什么要做你正在做的事?
Speaker 132:35 - 32:44
You only get one life. You get one life now. Sometimes people don't have choices at all. That's the only job they have. They need to afford to be able to support their family.
Speaker 132:35 - 32:44
人只有一辈子。你现在就只有这一辈子。有时候,人们根本没有选择。那就是他们唯一能做的工作。他们需要有能力养家糊口。
Speaker 132:44 - 32:57
I got that. Believe that. I know that. But for people who have a little bit of ability to choose, I'd say choose wisely. Choose wisely because you will not get that time back.
Speaker 132:44 - 32:57
我明白这一点。也相信这一点。我知道这一点。但对于那些多少有一点选择能力的人,我会说,要明智地选择。要明智地选择,因为那段时间你再也拿不回来了。
Speaker 132:58 - 33:38
And some people have different ideas on what will they believe their life should be and that whatever it is, it's long term for going that path. That's great. My biggest fear too much is people who've taken paths that in the end, they're middle aged or later, and they're a little bit wistful about, gee, I wonder if I had done it next. And I'll be perfectly honest and well, hope not to many of my law school classmates, I hope, but I fear that too many of them, they chose going to law school because that was just kind of like a path. Then they became lawyers just because, you know, that's normally what you do when you come out of law school, couple of lawyers.
Speaker 132:58 - 33:38
而且有些人对自己的人生应该是什么样,会有不同的看法;不管那是什么,那都是一条要长期走下去的路。这很好。我最大的担忧更多在于这样一些人:他们走上了某些道路,结果到了中年,甚至更晚的时候,会有一点怅然若失,心想,哎,要是我当时换一条路会怎样呢?我就坦率地说吧,也希望我的 law school 同学不要太多人听到这话,但我担心他们当中太多人去读 law school,只是因为那看起来像是一条既定路径。然后他们又成了 lawyers,仅仅因为——你知道的——从 law school 毕业之后,通常就是这么做,身边也都是 lawyers。
Speaker 133:38 - 33:57
I didn't, but many people did. And then it paid really well and it was easy in their comfort zone. And then later in life, it was kind of like, gee, what did I do? And that's when I think everybody should really think hard about making sure you choose wisely.
Speaker 133:38 - 33:57
我没有这样,但很多人是这样。后来那份工作薪水很高,又待在他们的 comfort zone(舒适区)里很轻松。再后来到了人生的后面,他们就会有点像在想,天哪,我到底都做了些什么?所以我觉得,这正是每个人都应该认真想清楚、确保自己做出明智选择的时候。
Speaker 233:57 - 34:08
You know, one thing we've talked about quite a bit is the AI impact on jobs. And, you know, there's this claim jobs apocalypse and all these other things coming. Would love to hear your views on that and how you think about that.
Speaker 233:57 - 34:08
你知道,我们反复谈到过的一件事,就是 AI 对就业的影响。还有,你知道的,那种所谓“jobs apocalypse(就业末日)”以及其他各种说法。很想听听你对此的看法,以及你是怎么思考这件事的。
Speaker 134:08 - 34:29
So it is really interesting. I mean, we take it in terms of the general sense of technology being job replacement. That's something that happened forever. We well, look at the way the agrarian societies went more towards urbanization as technology passed, industrial revolution. We can go through anything like that.
Speaker 134:08 - 34:29
所以这确实很有意思。我的意思是,如果把它放到更一般的层面上,看作 technology(技术)对工作的替代,这其实是一直都在发生的事情。我们——嗯——看看随着技术发展、industrial revolution(工业革命)推进,agrarian societies(农业社会)如何越来越走向 urbanization(城市化)。类似这样的例子,我们可以举出很多。
Speaker 134:29 - 35:00
And so we know that happened. The issue that's really interesting though is the speed of the change. So if you look right now where we are, I've seen it happen over my time just this company. So at the beginning of the company, we were dealing at booking.com or we acquired booking.com. They were doing hotel reservations in over 40 languages, which meant all the content, All the scripts, everything was in 40 languages, and this customer service, 40 languages, all that.
Speaker 134:29 - 35:00
所以我们知道,这件事确实发生过。不过真正有意思的问题,是变化的速度。如果看我们现在所处的位置,我在这家公司任职期间就亲眼见过这种变化。公司刚开始的时候,我们在 booking.com 做业务,或者说我们收购了 booking.com。那时他们用 40 多种语言做酒店预订,这意味着所有内容、所有脚本、所有东西都是 40 多种语言版本,客户服务也是 40 多种语言,全部都是这样。
Speaker 135:00 - 35:19
It's wonderful. And there were a lot of people involved with that because all the translation is now in the oh, it's it's, like, 2005. All the translations are being done by human beings. There's no machine translation at all at the time. And all those customer service human beings, we had to have people in all these 40 different languages and that.
Speaker 135:00 - 35:19
这很了不起。而且当时有很多人参与其中,因为所有翻译——那大概是 2005 年——全都是由人工完成的。那时候根本没有 machine translation(机器翻译)。还有那些客户服务人员,我们必须配备会这 40 种不同语言的人,全都得有人做。
Speaker 135:19 - 35:28
That was a big deal. Now now we have machine translations. All those jobs are gone. There's nobody doing anything. That's those all those jobs disappear.
Speaker 135:19 - 35:28
那是件大事。现在我们有了 machine translation(机器翻译)。那些工作全都没了。已经没有人在做那些事了。那些岗位全都消失了。
Speaker 135:28 - 35:35
So what happened to those people? Where did they go? What are the tops are they now taking? What are they doing in sec? So that's an example where we see that happen in real time.
Speaker 135:28 - 35:35
那这些人后来怎么样了?他们去了哪里?他们现在从事什么岗位?他们现在在做什么?这就是一个例子,说明我们如何在实时地看到这种事情发生。
Speaker 135:35 - 36:11
And now we have the issue not only of Apple, now the fear of, well, will I get a job coming out of university because all the jobs seem to be gone because what was necessary was an analyst at a financial department, a bank, or a corporation's job was not being done through basically AI. So the job started, what's going on, how's it going affect? Now we know also the other side, that new jobs aren't gonna be created. We all know that also by history. We're looking at the problem of this, the speed of job, well, disappearance and new job creation.
Speaker 135:35 - 36:11
现在我们面临的问题不只是 Apple,而是更普遍的担忧:比如我大学毕业后还能找到工作吗?因为很多岗位看起来都要消失了。过去在金融部门、银行或企业里需要 analyst(分析师)来做的工作,现在基本上都在通过 AI 完成。于是人们开始问:到底发生了什么?这会产生什么影响?当然我们也知道另一面:新的工作也会被创造出来,这一点从历史中我们同样知道。问题在于,岗位消失和新岗位创造的速度。
Speaker 136:11 - 36:41
Those rates are not happening probably the same rate. And the second thing is, what about the people who are not able to make that change? So I think well, I always think about the typical person I think about is a 50 year old truck driver. And when the person who was making a very nice living and felt very good about himself because he or she is driving an 18 wheeler across The US and very responsible, helping contribute to a good job there. And now all of sudden, that's completely automated.
Speaker 136:11 - 36:41
这两种速度很可能并不相同。第二个问题是,那些无法完成这种转变的人怎么办?所以我常会想到一个典型的人物:一个 50 岁的卡车司机。这个人原本收入很不错,也对自己感觉很好,因为他或她开着一辆 18 wheeler 穿越整个 The US,承担着很大的责任,也确实在为一份重要的工作做贡献。而现在,突然之间,这一切都被完全自动化了。
Speaker 136:42 - 36:49
Mhmm. You're out of a job. What are we gonna how are we gonna retrain that pro? What's that person? That person's gonna feel really bad.
Speaker 136:42 - 36:49
嗯。你失业了。那我们该怎么办?我们要怎么重新培训这个人?这个人会很难受。
Speaker 136:49 - 37:18
And we've seen in society how these type of forced dislocations have caused problems in the past when you look at that. And I'm concerned that there's not enough thought being done about how are we going to deal with these changes if they happen too quickly or not. Society is whole, absolutely. It's always benefit from technology and creating and being able to do more things. But we have to how are we gonna deal with the flip side, the cost that come with it.
Speaker 136:49 - 37:18
我们从社会历史中已经看到,这类被迫发生的错位和位移,过去曾经造成过问题。我担心的是,人们还没有充分思考:如果这些变化发生得太快,或者不管怎样发生了,我们要如何应对。作为一个整体,社会当然一直都从技术中受益,也因此能创造、能做更多事情。但我们也必须思考:它的另一面,那些随之而来的代价,我们要怎么处理。
Speaker 237:18 - 37:22
Do have a do have a specific viewpoint or proposal in terms of what we should be doing there?
Speaker 237:18 - 37:22
关于我们在那里应该做什么,你是否确实有一个具体的观点或提议?
Speaker 137:22 - 37:42
Well, I'll tell you one thing that we do here at our company. One thing that we're always doing is trying to upskill people. I'd say every day, I'm talking with my head of the my CHR overhead of, you know, how can we do the best training? How can we get people so they are ready for the future? How do we get them so they are becoming AI literate?
Speaker 137:22 - 37:42
嗯,我先说一件我们公司正在做的事。我们一直在做的一件事,就是努力帮助员工提升技能。我可以说,几乎每天我都在和我们负责 CHR 的主管讨论,比如说,我们怎样才能提供最好的培训?怎样才能让人们为未来做好准备?怎样才能让他们具备 AI literacy(AI 素养)?
Speaker 137:42 - 38:01
It's quite a word that these AI be able to do AI. And that's really important because even if we end up that we can't replace or retrain or put someone else, at least they are better skilled for a job somewhere else. And I feel a real obligation for that. Now that's that's our point. I think everybody should be thinking that way too.
Speaker 137:42 - 38:01
这是个相当重要的说法:这些 AI,要让人们能够使用 AI。而这真的非常重要,因为即使最后我们无法替换、再培训,或把某个人安排到别的岗位上,至少他们已经具备了更好的技能,能去别的地方找到工作。对此我确实感到一种责任。现在,这就是我们的立场。我认为每个人也都应该这样想。
Speaker 138:01 - 38:09
It's good for our company. It's a positive for our life for somebody to be able to use new tools in a better way. They're more productive. That's great. It's good.
Speaker 138:01 - 38:09
这对我们公司有好处。对一个人来说,能够以更好的方式使用新工具,对其人生也是积极的影响。他们会更高效。那很棒。这很好。
Speaker 138:09 - 38:32
But it also helps them for their career. Now, sometimes I could see somebody in short term saying, I don't wanna spend the money for that. And it's not the right way to think about it. Now, we could have governments coming in with certain types of programs trying to come up with ways, but retraining by governments over the last fifty years really hasn't worked out so well. So I'm not sure that's the right way to go either.
Speaker 138:09 - 38:32
但这对他们的职业生涯也有帮助。现在,短期来看,我能理解有些人会说,我不想为这个花钱。但那并不是看待这个问题的正确方式。政府当然也可以推出某些类型的项目,试图想出办法来应对,但过去五十年里,政府主导的 retraining(再培训)其实效果并不算太好。所以我也不确定那是不是正确的路径。
Speaker 138:32 - 39:15
But I do believe this is something that I really would like to have more conversation about how to do it because I do I am concerned if we end up in a situation where people will start rejecting technology because of fear, that would end up being bad for us as a society, and by the way, other parts of world are not gonna have that problem, and they will be disadvantaged, I assure you, in China. They not having that same thing about, Oh, AI is bad, and we shouldn't do it. That is not what's happening there. So I really think we got to talk honesty and openly so we have the right conversation and do not end up on the bad side of people coming out and rejecting what actually are going to be good for society.
Speaker 138:32 - 39:15
但我确实相信,这是一件我非常希望能有更多讨论的事,讨论到底该怎么做,因为我确实担心,如果最后我们走到一种局面——人们因为恐惧而开始拒绝技术——那对整个社会都会是坏事。顺便说一句,世界上其他一些地区不会有这个问题,而我们会因此处于劣势。我向你保证,在 China,他们不会出现同样那种“哦,AI 很糟,我们不该做”的想法。那边并不是这样。所以我真的认为,我们必须诚实、公开地讨论,这样我们才能进行正确的对话,不至于走到那种人们站出来拒绝那些实际上会对社会有益之物的糟糕局面。
Speaker 239:15 - 39:28
That makes sense. Yeah. It's interesting too because I know that, I know at least one group that has rerun consumer surveys on AI because there's this claim right now that people are very negative on AI. And it turns out it depends on what the question you ask is.
Speaker 239:15 - 39:28
这说得通。是啊。这也很有意思,因为我知道,至少有一个团队重新做过关于 AI 的消费者调查,因为现在有一种说法是,人们对 AI 非常负面。结果发现,这取决于你问的具体是什么问题。
Speaker 139:28 - 39:29
If you
Speaker 139:28 - 39:29
如果你
Speaker 239:29 - 39:54
ask people, do you love using ChatGPT and Gemini and Claude and all that, they're like, we love it, we'll pay more for it, and it's wonderful, helping our lives in all these different ways or it's helping our kids with school or whatever it is. Then if you ask them, are you worried that AI will come and destroy your life and take your job and ruin your career? Then, of course, people are like, I don't like it. And so I think the the questions are being asked a certain way on purpose. And I think to your point, we need to be level headed and say, okay.
Speaker 239:29 - 39:54
你去问人们,你喜欢用 ChatGPT、Gemini、Claude 之类的东西吗,他们会说,我们喜欢,我们愿意为它多付钱,这太棒了,它正在以各种不同的方式帮助我们的生活,或者帮助我们的孩子上学,不管是哪一种。然后如果你再问他们,你担心 AI(人工智能)会来毁掉你的生活、夺走你的工作、毁掉你的职业生涯吗?那当然,人们就会说,我不喜欢它。所以我觉得,这些问题被提问的方式本身就是有意为之的。我也认为,正如你说的,我们需要保持冷静、理性地说,好吧。
Speaker 239:55 - 40:09
What's the real implication for different areas of the economy? How do we make sure that people benefit overall? And how do we make sure that people can participate? And that's very different from, you know, taking a pure doomer view or taking a pure sort of negative view on what's coming. So, you know, I appreciate your perspective on that.
Speaker 239:55 - 40:09
它对经济中不同领域真正的影响是什么?我们怎样才能确保人们总体上受益?又怎样才能确保人们能够参与其中?这和那种纯粹的 doomer(末日论者)视角,或者对即将到来的事情抱持一种纯粹负面的看法,是非常不同的。所以,我很认同你在这方面的观点。
Speaker 140:09 - 40:30
You're so right. Part of the problem is in a democracy, which we have, which I'm in favor of, you'll have people who are saying certain things because they're not missing what they believe, but people will give them a vote. And that's also problematic in any or in favor of democracy, but I'll be in favor of people to be a little bit more honest on what they're saying.
Speaker 140:09 - 40:30
你说得太对了。问题的一部分在于,在一个民主社会里——而我们确实生活在这样的社会中,我也是支持民主的——总会有人出于某些说法而发声,并不是因为他们真的相信自己说的那些东西,而是因为那样说能让别人把票投给他们。而这同样是个问题。无论如何,我支持民主,但我也希望人们在表达自己立场时能稍微更诚实一点。
Speaker 240:30 - 40:31
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What's their real purpose? Yeah.
Speaker 240:30 - 40:31
对,对,对。他们真正的目的是什么?对。
Speaker 240:31 - 40:39
100%. Yeah. Thank you so much for joining today. Really appreciate, you know, you sharing your various views across all these topics. It's been really great chatting with you.
Speaker 240:31 - 40:39
完全同意。是的。非常感谢你今天参与。也非常感谢你分享了自己在所有这些话题上的各种看法。和你聊天真的很愉快。
Speaker 140:39 - 40:44
Well, thank you and congratulations on all things that you've accomplished. It's pretty impressive.
Speaker 140:39 - 40:44
好的,谢谢你,也祝贺你所取得的一切成就。真的相当令人印象深刻。
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Speaker 340:47 - 41:03
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