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Hilton wants to be valued like a technology platform. Owners will judge it by whether lower distribution costs actually reach them.
Christopher Nassetta has a new way of describing Hilton: “people-led, tech-powered.” In the past month, the company has hired a chief technology officer from Uber, said it will move its stock listing to the Nasdaq, and told investors it is already plugged into “each and every one” of the AI agents emerging in travel.
When Hilton announced the Nasdaq move last week, it said the switch would change nothing operationally. But on Tuesday’s third-quarter earnings call, Nassetta made clear how one of the world’s largest hotel companies now wants investors to see it.
The Nasdaq is home to Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia, and a marketplace of “the world’s most innovative companies,” as Nassetta put it last week and again on Tuesday.
Earlier this month, Hilton appointed Jeff Moore as chief technology officer. Moore joined from Uber, where he led a global engineering organization of 2,500 people; before that, he was
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