building @discovant @travisoai ex product & engineering leader @expedia
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A lot of founders underestimate the importance of customer interviews when building a product.
Assumptions don't pay the bills. Your customers do.
Meta owns the apps where a lot of trips get decided. 51% of travelers have switched hotels after seeing a better option on social media.
Now Zuckerberg wants a percent of the bookings too. Pay the creators driving those trips.
Mark Zuckerberg called travel one of the 'top use cases' for Meta's artificial intelligence agent, Muse. He is also weighing ways for Meta to earn a share of what it helps people book. hubs.li/Q04CfBw30
73% of travelers say influencers inspire where they go.
Agoda pays creators 4% per booking (capped at $10).
Travel creators are shaping demand, but the economics haven't caught up.
That's why I'm building @travisoai.
As founders, we sometimes get so caught up in building something that we forget why we're building it in the first place.
I catch myself doing this all the time...
Just a reminder to slow down every once in a while and make time for the people who matter.
Just got to SF Tech Week 🌉
Would love to meet some travel creators while I’m here. Building Traviso and looking for creators who want a new way to grow and monetize their travel content.
Let’s chat, coffee’s on me!
At Expedia Affiliate Partnerships, I watched travel distribution get easier for publishers, loyalty programs, and comparison sites.
Creators influence where people go too, but most of the tools available to them still boil the trip down to a few separate links.
A travel creator can explain a week long trip in one short video. When someone wants to book it, they still have to search separately for flights, hotels, activities, and every stop in between.
That’s what I’m trying to fix with @travisoai.
I was the second product and engineering hire on Expedia’s Affiliate Partnerships team.
After 10+ years in travel tech, I kept seeing the same thing. People found trips through creators, then had to rebuild them across a bunch of booking sites.
Creators lose too. They can inspire the entire trip, but once a follower leaves the post to search and book, the creator often loses the credit and the chance to earn from it.
I started @travisoai to fix that. Traviso turns creator trips into itineraries people can personalize and book. The creator stays credited and earns when someone books.
If you create travel content, I’d love to hear how you share trips today.
"Codex is right and I missed something my own output already showed me. Verifying every claim now."
-Anthropic, Fable 5
AI x IP is one of tech's biggest unsolved markets, but nobody's touching the real blocker...
No enterprise will hand over their training data to verify.
@StoryProtocol might've just fixed this with CDR.
Would love to pick your brain @jacobmtucker!
The largest copyright settlement in US history gets final approval Thursday, and almost nobody is quoting the line that actually matters. The release only covers Anthropic's conduct through August 25, 2025.
Every output Claude has generated in the past 9 months is still legally open. Bartz closed one door and left another one wide open...
The line I heard most this week at @consensus2026: “the agentic economy will hit $3 to $5 trillion by 2030.”
If that's where this is going, AI agents need to know what's safe to use, generate, and license. Right now, they're guessing.
That's what we're building at @discovant, a search engine for IP that answers copyright, patent, and trademark questions with the legal reasoning behind every answer.
The market wants this.