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Roomiy helps hotel owners and franchisees create asset. Hedge unsold room risk, lock in cash flow.

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unique, controlled supply of (perishable) assets paired w/ flow-style demand is a very, very valuable thing.

there is 200B+ of room night flow moved across north america. retail electricity is $500B+

the best are recognizing this and placing their bets.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

How fucked you are in an agent-disintermediating world completely depends on how much control you have over supply. To answer your question- you may not have a choice on whether you allow bots

Expedia can block agents, but it doesn’t control the hotel inventory. If Expedia stops letting agents book, they’ll go through Booking, Google, or direct.

Resy has more leverage via exclusives, but if agents become a major source of diners, restaurants will want to be bookable via agents and reservation systems that support agents will win supply / someone will come along with a cheap direct booking sell… AI can disintermediate discovery/customer ownership, but Resy can survive as the restaurant’s reservation infrastructure…. But that is a much smaller rent pool unless the inventory/network remains differentiated.

Uber is much harder to disintermediate. It actually controls a valuable network of drivers, dispatch, pricing, and payments.

“why would they allow agents?” Is basically if they can’t afford not to

After an AI agent takes over your consumer interface, how much economically essential stuff are you doing that only you can provide?

For Expedia it seems tough to me.

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@courtmwarner @CharlieShrem Top two children’s authors of all time - Dr. Seuss and @graememoore

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@amadeus4dev do you have any developer advocates at TTE London today at your booth? Love this initiative and would be great to speak with a SME about best ways to utilize your dev tools / API’s 😀

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@techreview @cburniske The marketplace for your digital photo rights can’t get to production soon enough 😂

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@techreview @cburniske You're Famous

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@ankurb 🥇Congrats mate!! I’m in China right now then Canada for the holidays, but a January catch sounds in order if you’re around.

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@jonlovett @jonfavs Trying to do my part for democracy and report bugs in #VoteSaveAmerica like twitter is JIRA.

https://t.co/nGzOvxsXQI

Hope this helps to get it fixed.Thanks for all you and the PSA gang do. Pundit included. It is both sorely needed and very much appreciated.

[Steve Dunlop Photographer @DunlopPhoto]

Panel. Innovating through growth: Using Blockchain to optimise processes and transactions in travel. Alexandra Limerick @WEX_Travel @robertodare Travel Ledger Alliance @khalidladha @BlockxLabs @travolution #Travosummit #Travosummit18

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@travolution @BlockxLabs Very excited for this! Going to be a terrific day of learning and insights for travel x tech folk of all stripes. Presenters included :)

[Basket @basketdotfarm_]

A little gift from the @brave team for our Director of Strategic Alliances @khalidladha during their keynote in London today. Excited to see what's inside! Many thanks @BrendanEich! 🙌🙌
#BraveBrowser #BlockXLabs #LearningNewThings #IndustrySurprises #Blockchain

[khal (khalid) ladha 🇨🇦/acc @khalidladha]

Had a great time at the @EyeforTravel summit last week for @BlockxLabs with some of the brightest minds around in travel x tech.

Special shout-out to @amperity and @windingtree teams, plus my guy @pedro_r_a for saving me from being 'The Blockchain Guy' https://t.co/g20hRaUlZR

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@cburniske 2/ From a $$ upside/use case POV, Mysterium. Decentralized VPNs=huge new need (look @ AAPL/China). The Cypherpunk answer to State Censorship

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@cburniske 1/ Two jump out. Juan + Protocol w/ Filecoin & IFPS are changing the game. They are going right after AMZN, S3, King Bezos & the computing 👑

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@diiorioanthony Had great help from Jaxx CS team 8/1. Props to the team, unsung heroes all.

Remember: Great CS + Security = Stickiness!

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@JLindzon Your piece on Justin was a great read yet again. FYI, you should read/think about setting up a BTC/ETH 'tip jar'.. #freelancelife

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@danfinlay No Joke - your XCap 10 min vid is the best technical intro for Merkles I've seen. Keep building cool shit & talking about it...!

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@ARKblockchain Thanks for your level-headed analysis! V V needed these days. PS have you thought about a crypto pod? You have the platform..

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@USAFacts This is an incredible platform. Thanks for showing how open-source principles can grow civic engagement & offer real transparency

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@DefenseDigital You're doing ESSENTIAL work. Thank you for changing gov't to work for Society. We need you more than ever. FYI @SpeakerRyan

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@coinbase any plans to integrate further with other crypto's like Augur or Zcash for the 2017 roadmap?