tigs is jestermaxxing 🍄🐳

Today, Long Lake completed our $6.3B acquisition of Amex GBT. Long Lake acquires and transforms generational businesses with AI across the American services economy. Amex GBT is the travel partner for 17,500 businesses in 140 countries. Last year, Amex GBT booked 35 million trips for 10 million travelers. This marks Long Lake’s 40th acquisition, and our family of companies now employs nearly 30,000 people. We founded Long Lake three years ago with the thesis that AI is going to change every company, but there’s a large overhang between AI capabilities and how most businesses leverage AI tools. We partner with strong, profitable, and growing businesses to help them deploy AI and improve their customer service. Our first cohort of companies has doubled their EBITDA in less than two years through topline and productivity growth, all while increasing headcount. (We’re proud to say that we’ve never conducted a layoff.) We’re excited to share a bit more about what we’ve been up to.

contrarian (?) take: local >> cloud have basically moved off cloud agents for dev onto local sandbox is the wrong abstraction, high fidelity persistence is everything. your ~/ contains everything you've ever done with every interface you interact with codex / claude good enough to launch a ton of shit in parallel, your desktop is the ai native agent swarm all auth covered "hey use my browser i'm already logged in" + codex can cua any other apps anyway away from your computer? just remote control that shiii turns out the ai native coding agent platform was just your mac. extrapolate

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I went through every data vendor that launched in the last 3 weeks. Almost all of them are lying about their revenue, their lab partnerships, and their backgrounds. (skip to 1:04 if you want to skip context) Too many founders and VCs have been fooled by these people. Stop believing everything you hear. Data is much harder than most people think.

This Nathan Fielder clip