Ben Gorman

My hot take of the day is that a Lambda School for electricians, CNC machinists, and other advanced manufacturing roles would do very well for the next 20+ years. Maybe longer.

@anothercohen the robot companies fighting what could go wrong

Honestly it’s bullshit that it’s the compliance startups with all the drama. We deserve something more exciting. I need the space companies and robotics startups to start committing fraud and fighting on the timeline!

@BrandonGleklen on memo writing - want our team to spent as little time possible on busywork vs. true learning (or winning the deal/selling). at the same time - I don’t care what a bunch of weights say…I want to know what my teammates think. still figuring out the balance that feels right

why oh why isn’t the search bar on iOS just an LLM. charge me a monthly subscription already. unnecessary gate blocking the ASI

v cool

can one submit ‘dreams and nightmares’ as a memo to IC?

these kind people have created a super intelligence and yet...

“But sir that’s ragebait. If you do this, you’ll slopify the timeline. And you're posting something that you know has no value!” We are selling engagement to willing scrollers at the current fair algorithm parameters.

Anthropic's new vendor negotiation is "If you dont give me a 90% discount, we're going to tweet"

Supreme Court strikes down tariffs scotusblog.com/2026/02/suprem…

BREAKING: Trump brutally lawmogged by SCOTUS for tariffmaxxing, a decision sure to spike White House’s cortisol

Wyndham has 8.3k hotels and highlighted use of AI on their conf call today. Positive callouts on $CRM / Canary helping them put it all together. It seems pretty obvious that AI functionality is being productized in real-time, and adding demonstrable value. It also is telling that this company rolled out AI via existing SaaS relationships vs build-your-own car w/ an LLM engine. AI agents drove 200 bps of direct bookings via AI voice agent conversion improvements, and reduced labor costs meaningfully. It seemed like this was characterized as NEW stuff – AI upsells early check-in, late check-out, amenities which wasn’t done as frequently / well as before. Seems like this part was done by Canary (hotel SaaS). Highlights -Have ~350 AI agents handling millions of guest calls and reservation requests, driving hundreds of bps of additional direct bookings while reducing opex for franchisees -Built Guest 360 data product with $CRM – “establishing a scalable AI factory that enables us to rapidly design and deliver advanced solutions”. Been able to personalize agentic experience in one place using our loyalty / CRM data. Wyndham connect plus handling hundreds of thousands of calls savings on labor costs. It’s driving over 300 bps of direct contribution to franchisees who are using it. -Howard Johnson outside of Anaheim making over $10k / mo in incremental fees [context suggests these are sold by AI?] (late checkout, amenities, etc.) which is $120k / year for a hotel that might do 5m / year in rev. “This is a big deal”. -Work w/ public LLM including GOOGL and ChatGPT to establish direct connection of hotel data so they don’t have to scrape our sites and have real-time data. Will be part of agentic search. [Fuels concern that OTAs will lose relevance]. -Cost <$100k to connect to LLMs. Guests will get link to book directly on brand.com. -Using tech from Canary tech to power 5k hotels for front desk ops. -Focusing on hotels close to data center builds bc they carry a rev premium of 560 bps vs rest of US hotels.

Question- has anyone written an X Article about the death of SaaS

Anyway, I would HIGHLY advise all founders to never work with Dover as their ATS. We just switched to Ashby

Ok brother, do you think you could make Outlook search work when you have a minute?

@fchollet This is the same chart from two months ago. Let that sink in.

Software bears are going to be shocked to discover that free open source alternatives to every major software company were available long before AI