Booking.com – what’s that again? It is one of the biggest online travel agencies, which since 2007 has been responsible for more than three billion bookings. It’s a one-stop-shop for booking flights, ...

In 1996 in the Netherlands, Geert-Jan Bruinsma, a recent college grad who always knew he wanted to start a business, discovered the Internet, and decided he wanted to create a hotel-booking website.