Maelle Gavet
Maelle Gavet
Maelle Gavetis a businesswoman from France. She is the Chief Operating Officer of The Priceline Group...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionBusinesswoman
Date of Birth22 May 1978
CountryFrance
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The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!
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Russians are not a very friendly people. It's hard to get them to speak nicely to the customers. It's just not in their culture.
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I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.
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A great deal of energy is spent daily on pushing the Russian e-commerce boom along while managing all aspects of growth and development along the way.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.
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When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.
The Russian customers don't feel very comfortable with online transactions.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.
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The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you.
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I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.