Laila G. Eldin

On a mission to sell trillions of dollars’ worth of small businesses

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

I quit my job at TikTok to go sell a couple million small businesses… follow along? 👀

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

@iroshads @Google @XiJin12 @Tesla Let’s go!

[JD @JD_DeYonker]

"I'd be open to selling. I want a 5x multiplier of last years revenue, $1.6mil x 5 = 8 million as a starting point"

My brother in Christ, Hubspot trades for 2x revenue, your landscaping business does not fetch 5x.

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

@adambcohen93 You're thinking of @atlys

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

Spent the day with other female builders at the OpenAI office last week pushing the limits of what the tools can do.

So much to build and do! Thanks for the invite, @OpenAI!

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

Last week, we hosted Women who Code(x)

The output: task agents, personal guides, and a lot of projects shipped with Codex

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

@ycombinator Can’t wait to play 👾

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

@3dblurss 🙏🙏

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

Wanna get paid to doomscroll this summer? Look no further!

Silver Surf is an SF-based startup building for small businesses. We're looking for a content strategy intern to do everything from researching formats to writing scripts.

Paid. Remote fine.

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

@byzianna_ Thanks @byzianna_ , send me an email at [email protected] with your resume and I'll follow up to grab a time

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

Full JD: https://t.co/BY83PRPkig

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

Always great chatting with @iroshads

[Irosha de Silva @iroshads]

She left @Google. She left @tiktok_us. To build for the $5T problem nobody in tech is touching.
New on The @Tesla Pod with @LailaSilverSurf of Silver Surf.

Full episode 👇
https://t.co/JnfsFHrmvc

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

AI-Native Service Companies
@gustaf

The total spend on services is many times larger than the spend on software, and a lot of those services are already outsourced, which makes them easier to replace with an AI-native product.

We're excited about companies that don't sell a tool to help you do the work: they just do the work.

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

@PavanKumarNY @garrytan Every now and again when something big happens. Way more focused on building

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

@brycent Yeah :/

That’s why I’m building better infrastructure for buying and selling SMBs.

Less business closures -> less job losses -> less of all this

[David Roberts @recap_david]

SERVICE-AS-A-SOFTWARE. That is the real opportunity for 90% of us.

I keep watching smart people pour months into building beautiful UI applications that Anthropic and OpenAI are going to absorb in a single product update.

It will feel ARCHAIC in two years that we used to click through user interfaces to navigate databases and complete tasks. Agents just do it. One prompt. Done.

90% of the entire application layer is going to get eaten over the next decade. The dashboards. The forms. The CRUD. All of it.

Where does that leave you?

Exactly where the money is.

Service-as-a-software.

E.g. An ad agency that bakes its winning playbooks into AI systems and serves 1,000 clients with the quality they used to give 10.

An IP law firm that encodes decades of expertise into AI skill files and sells legal services at infinite scale with near-zero marginal cost.

A consulting firm. An accounting practice. A creative studio. Pick your vertical.

The backend is AI. The frontend is your expertise packaged as a service. The moat is that YOU actually know what good looks like in your domain.

You're not competing with OpenAI. You're competing with other service providers who are still doing everything manually.

That's not a hard fight to win.

Encode your knowledge. Automate your delivery. Sell the service. Scale infinitely.

The technology gets commoditized. The person who knows how to USE it doesn't.

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

@JulienBek @JulienBek tools are WIP (company’s 7 weeks old) but the goal is to only have humans (1) do a final reviews of the ai’s financial cleanup (2) final negotiations (3) human-facing emotional support/assurance

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

yupp. tam for doing the thing >>>> tam for giving someone the tool to do the thing

that’s why i’ve been building my brokerage full-stack

[Julien Bek @JulienBek]

https://t.co/hsKrbn1gEq

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

@riomensah 💃

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

@bitcoinbasha 🤜🤛

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

I quit my job at TikTok to go sell a couple million small businesses… follow along? 👀

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

@isaacdidathing @fdotinc @karosaves go albo!

[Laila G. Eldin @LailaSilverSurf]

gonna be at @fdotinc today sharing more, pull up!