Quotes from Maelle Gavet

I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!

There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.

The Priceline Group is a truly globally-scaled digital e-commerce Fortune 500 company operating world-class brands. I look forward to contributing to the Group by identifying new opportunities and operating synergies that enhance its already strong track record as a global digital pioneer.

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.

The biggest deficit in terms of gender equality at Ozon lay in our IT department. So we made a decision, along with our key IT leaders, to remove all filters and systemically interview all the women who apply.

Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

The Russian customers don't feel very comfortable with online transactions.

Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

Money, while clearly helpful in solving myriad problems, can often conceal a business's real flaws. It can also risk rigidifying a company's business model at the very moment it should be in 'customer discovery' mode or iterating around market opportunities.

At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.

After I completed the project for BCG, I was offered the position of Director of Marketing for Ozon.ru.

All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.

The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.

Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.

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.

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'.