From Gaming Teen to $2B Exit: The Kayak Story

How Paul English turned terrible early mistakes into billion-dollar lessons

By Chris Kernaghan 3 min read
From Gaming Teen to $2B Exit: The Kayak Story

Paul English's journey from selling a teenage video game for $25K to building Kayak into a $2 billion acquisition is the kind of founder story that makes you stop scrolling.

But as always with great founder stories, it wasn't a straight line to success, and the early days were messier than you'd expect.