What Nick Kokonas has said about Dynamic pricing
2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 26, 2026
Nick Kokonas, American former options trader, co-founder of the restaurant Alinea and founder of the reservation software company Tock, has been quoted on Dynamic pricing 2 times in 1 episode of My First Million, most recently on October 26, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Kokonas argues, against calls to ban dynamic pricing, that the best way to avoid gouging is to price dynamically as quickly as possible.
“But the best way to do that is to dynamically price things as fast as you possibly can”
My First Million: How to find your arbitrage (from the guy who’s done it 3x) ft. Nick Kokonas (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 46:24
Kokonas believes localized dynamic pricing for time-slotted businesses will be worth hundreds of billions of dollars to someone.
“geofenced, meaning localized, dynamic and variable pricing for time slotted businesses is something that someone's going to make hundreds of billions of dollars with”
My First Million: How to find your arbitrage (from the guy who’s done it 3x) ft. Nick Kokonas (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 47:00
Episodes
How to find your arbitrage (from the guy who’s done it 3x) ft. Nick KokonasMy First Million · Oct 26, 2026 · 2 h 7 min
Shaan Puri talks with Nick Kokonas about finding arbitrages across trading, the restaurant Alinea, Tock, Napa winemaking and an immersive magic venue.
Others on Dynamic pricing
- Lindsay Owens · 2 quotes
Nick Kokonas on other topics
- Arbitrage · 3 quotes
- Strange House · 2 quotes
- Alinea (restaurant) · 2 quotes
- Napa Valley wine industry · 1 quote
- Mergers and acquisitions due diligence · 1 quote
- Flash Boys · 1 quote
- Restaurant industry economics · 1 quote
- Tock · 1 quote