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While corporate travel has been centralized for decades, corporate entertainment is still comparatively scattered. On Lightwork, Lohit Sarma shared how he approached that problem at @weareande: start with supply. He spent the last two and a half years building the network from that side first, including going door to door with hospitality groups before scaling the enterprise side. Corporate entertainment still runs on relationships. AI can handle things like availability, pricing, and multi-player workflows, but Lohit draws the line at negotiation. As he puts it, “one bad event is one lost relationship that they can’t recover from.” Tune into the full episode below! Chapters: 0:00 Ande Comes Out Of Stealth 2:17 Why Corporate Entertainment Has Stayed Fragmented 4:51 Lohit Sarma's Background (Lifion by ADP) 9:51 What CFOs Revealed About Fraud And Offshore Teams 10:47 Building The Supply Side First 16:44 Ande's Enterprise Customers And Rollout Strategy 18:40 How AI Is Built Into Ande's Ethos 22:58 The Future Of Ande 26:11 Hiring A Team To Build A Category 29:38 What Can Break At Ten Times The Size 31:50 Celebrating The Launch And Where To Find Ande @keepingittlo @clairejyz @machiz