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.

New @20vcFund episode on 20sales just dropped with @max11free - pumped to give it a listen open.spotify.com/episode/01i…

China is winning the AI race. So we raised $12M from @8vc to build thousands of new AI data centers in America. Here's what will make the AI bubble pop: Data centers are needed for AI. Every invoice to build a data center is hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of pages long. The finance teams that need to approve these invoices are drowning. The entire AI race is being bottlenecked by human approval. AI should fix this. That's why we’re launching Kos. Kos is a team of AI agents that work the way humans work. Tag Kos in Microsoft teams, or get on a Zoom call. It doesn't hallucinate, and it has verifiable proof for it's work. Kos is purpose built AI for Datacenter, Energy, and Manufacturing Finance. Think Harvey but instead of for law, it's specialized for Finance. Book a demo here: kos.ai/ ------ We’re backed by the founders and C-Suite of billion dollar companies: Keith D. Taylor (former Equinix CFO), Dave Ferdman (CyrusOne Founder), Heather Paduck (STACK Infrastructure CFO), Matthew DeNezza (former Crusoe CFO), and @sk7037 (Stanford, OpenAI). Our institutional investors are @8VC, led by @AlexKolicich, XYZ (@fubini), MVP (Alex Li) ------ One more thing, I made a huge notion doc on everything I learned building my last company (SpotAI) to >$100M in sales and funding. I give away my secret framework to find the right market, my exact interview process, and how to close enterprise deals. If you want it, just let me know and I'll shoot it over :)

FWIW, lots of VCs also lie or overstate their background. More commonly they dramatically exaggerate their position in rounds/impact on portcos. We work in an industry prone to posturing. Let’s not make this about a specific demo.

Computer science people have developed an unintentional form of gatekeeping by virtue of being extremely bad at explaining/naming things, which results in simple concepts sounding far more complex than they are.

If you’re a creative not using AI you’re fcked. Introducing Melius: the world’s first creative canvas for agents. Here’s how it works: