Or so it says in a pretty good profile interview of Simon Cowell Brent Hoberman, founder of Lastminute.com.
Read the interview on the Guardian website.
Anyone intrigued to see whether the trouser reference is just cheap journalistic licence to add colour to a feature piece or, in fact, embarrasingly true, can find out at the Travolution Summit in April.
[See, a rather cheap plug from us for our conference]
Kevin May, editor, Travolution
Nice to see WAYN's Peter Ward making it into the Sunday Times '40 under 40' rising media stars.
Realistically, at only 29, (we're not a bit green!) he could make it in every year for the next decade. It all depends on his next move though. And what must co-founder Jerome Touze be thinking?
According to the Sunday Times, investment bank Lazard has been brought in to find a buyer.
When we last spoke to him the news was that Lazard was there to 'work through all the various strategic options for the company.'
He also stressed (again) the company was not for sale.
Luckily, we'll have our chance to pin him down on this again tomorrow night at Travolution Question Time.
Other luminaries featured include Brent Hoberman (yes, still only 39 years old), ex-Lastminute.com and now MyDeco.com.
Linda Fox, lead reporter, Travolution
Big day today. We are officially launching our Travolution European Summit 2008, produced in association with PhoCusWright.
We have started assembling what we believe will be the best line-up of participants from the online travel industry you are likely to find anywhere in the UK in 2007.
Confirmed so far:
