🚨Our investors don’t just believe in us. They fly with us. 🚀✈️ Thrilled to announce FlyFlat's $3M oversubscribed round led by @BessemerVP Participation includes @slow @FjLabs @Jeffreyw5000 @spetrossov @noahsfriedman Sign up below or dm to stay in touch for the next round!

Has venture capital destroyed more tech than its created?

private company earnings calls are coming.

Most hoteliers participate in “loyalty” programs like Mariott Bonvoy not out of love for the brand, but to buy access to distribution. They're about financial engineering. Points are designed to expire, not to reward. When CFOs run the show, guest experience takes a back seat. @journeyrewards is reshaping this by putting experience and customers first. If the room is available, it's yours to book. Forget "Upon availability." John Sutton, CEO of Journey, and @KevinColleran

Why does every VC brand newsletter suck?

BREAKING: $2.4B for Windurf's Acqui-hires? Cheap. Remember 2010s? Facebook offered $3B for Snapchat. That was nearly 10% of Facebook's revenue at the time. Today, Google is only spending 0.074% of its annual revenue on Windsurf. Steal.

BREAKING: We finally changed our profile photo. No more camouflaging into the X background

We are excited to have @slow's @yrechtman as the featured speaker at our July Fundraising Workshop. Join us on 7/24 to hear Yoni and SVB’s @dpatrickjohnson Johnson share insights on the current landscape surrounding the early-stage #VC and #tech ecosystems: Hear more on why founders love our workshop with SVBer Mickala Olesen:

Online travel agencies like @bookingcom or @Expedia charge independent hotels up to 30% while the big brands pay less than half that. If you’re a boutique operator, you’re playing on hard mode. The hospitality system is overdue for disruption. And @journeyrewards is starting with hotels...

Ok. So this is leasing… and leasing only works with: 1. Captive financing arms 2. Securitization and 3. Secondary markets for the assets. Who wants to build those for ‘robots eat the world!’ With me?