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The Send
Startups, outdoor adventure, and building what's next
A founder-turned-explorer tracking where venture capital, outdoor industry, and AI converge
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Send: the regulator is the story. BLM finalizes the conservation rule rescission with a parallel grazing rewrite, chainsaws return to a 50-year wilderness, and Kevin Warsh inherits the Fe…
Today on The Send: a hotter-than-expected April CPI print is pricing rate hikes back onto the table, the BLM Conservation Rule rescission is now law with a grazing rewrite hot on its heels, and a Colo…
Today on The Send: the BLM's Conservation and Landscape Health Rule is officially rescinded, April CPI ran hotter than expected and pushed rate-cut hopes into 2027, and a fresh look at the AI app boom…
Today on The Send: the K-shaped consumer shows up everywhere โ parks funding fights, Wyndham's mobile bookings surging on nature stays, fintech consolidation around stablecoin rails, and a quiet rewri…
Today on The Send: the outdoor travel industry is quietly building its compliance and infrastructure layer, AI funding splits the startup market into two economies, and the Fed rate-cut window slides …
Today on The Send: outdoor recreation gets reframed as health infrastructure in DC, consumer sentiment cracks to a record low, and a solo founder runs 6,000 AI-operated companies on $800/month in tool…
Today on The Send: AI agents are eating the travel discovery layer, the WSL puts itself up for strategic alternatives, and the K-shaped consumer reshapes where adventure spending actually lands.
Today on The Send: a record-bad ski season exposes the outdoor economy's climate fragility, the Kayak founders return with an agentic travel play, autonomous-coding startup Blitzy hits a $1.4B valuati…
Today on The Send: corporate travel gets priced as an AI bet, the new $4M-per-employee efficiency benchmark reshapes founder math, and adventure travel keeps printing โ Lindblad at record occupancy, W…
Today on The Send: Forest Service prescribed burns collapse 50% heading into fire season, Yosemite's no-reservation gamble produces hour-long lines, and the AI-native founder stack gets concrete โ Int…