The @atlascard AI concierge just booked a private jet.
It sourced a top operator, negotiated the rate like the best brokers do, and texted the member until they said "book it."
Now it's arranging their ground transport.
We think this might be a first. We know it won't be the last.
@Emmettphaley@join_pearl this is why people still use travel agents + ai agents like instinct and others have no pull/access and spamming restaurants with calls/emails unlikely to yield results you want
One thing I admire about the legendary fintech founders (@NStoronsky@vladtenev@brian_armstrong@eglyman@patrickc and many more).
You have to be tough as nails to win in this market. Risk management, shipping financial products across multiple markets, ops teams, regulators. It's really fucking hard.
It's also why these teams are so talent dense. In fintech, there is never a shortage of hard problems to solve.
“The lifestyle of an entrepreneur at its core is: I can take more pain than the other guy, and I'll prove it.”
“ There's a zen that can happen when a warrior has fought for a long time. You can get used to it.”
“ You almost start accepting it. Like, something bad happens and you don't even get mad.”
“ There are benefits. But you need to make sure you don't get so used to it that it doesn't even bother you. You can get so zen, you're unbothered.”
“ There's something special about the extra fierceness of being bothered, being upset about something that is wrong.”
— @travisk
@FDavidsonT reservations at the top level don't really work this way - top restaurants aren't releasing prime table inventory on public sites like Resy, Opentable, etc - if you're lucky maybe you snipe a 10pm outdoor slot
@gokulr love the weekly ceo email - read the essay a few years ago and have sent one every sunday since; forces me to process the week and stay focused on priorities and the whole team gets context on what actually matters
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