{{for|people with a similar name|David Littman (disambiguation)}} '''David Litman''' was an American-French,<ref>{{cite news |first=Katherine Cromer |last=Brock |title=Founders of hotels.com start new venture |url=http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2009/07/06/daily37.html |work=Dallas Business Journal |date=2009-07-08 }}</ref> born in New York in 1957, he lived in the UK from 1967 to 1975. He attended Sussex House School from 1968 to 1971 and City of London School from 1971 to 1975. He is a graduate of Cornell University (1979) and Cornell Law School (1982).<ref name="clsforum">{{cite web |first=Cynthia |last=Tkachuck |title=Profiles: David Litman '82 |url=https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/alumni/foralumni/classnotes/upload/CLSForum_SF06.pdf |work=Cornell Law Forum |date=Summer–Fall 2006 }}</ref>
In 1991 David Litman, along with Bob Diener, founded Hotel Reservations Network (HRN), which later became Hotels.com in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://skift.com/history-of-online-travel/|title=The Definitive oral history of online travel|last=Schaal|first=Dennis|year=2016|publisher=Skift|accessdate=15 June 2016}}</ref> He was voted as the best performing lodging industry CEO of 2002.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lodging Industry's Top Performing CEO of 2002| url= http://www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2003_2nd/Jun03_DLitman.html |date=2009-07-08}}</ref> Litman sold the company to IAC in 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://iac.com/media-room/press-releases/usa-interactive-and-hotelscom-announce-merger-agreement |title=USA Interactive and Hotels.com Announce Merger Agreement {{!}} IAC |website=iac.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130330095631/http://www.iac.com/media-room/press-releases/usa-interactive-and-hotelscom-announce-merger-agreement |archive-date=2013-03-30}} </ref>
In 2009, Litman and Bob Diener launched Getaroom.com, a hotel booking site.<ref>{{cite news |first=Katherine Cromer |last=Brock |title=Founders of hotels.com start new venture |url=http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2009/07/06/daily37.html |work=Dallas Business Journal |date=2009-07-08 }}</ref> Litman currently co-chairs the ''Texas Business for Clean Air'' with Garrett Boone, founder of Dallas-based the Container Store.<ref>{{cite news |first=Margaret |last=Allen |title=Green business group says its work not done |url=http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2007/03/05/story13.html |work=Dallas Business Journal |date=2007-03-02 }}</ref>
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