# David Litman

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'''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](/source/Sussex_House_School) from 1968 to 1971 and [City of London School](/source/City_of_London_School) from 1971 to 1975. He is a graduate of [Cornell University](/source/Cornell_University) (1979) and [Cornell Law School](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/IAC_(company)) 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](/source/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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