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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: Nevada is steering $42 million into outdoor recreation infrastructure as states race to handle surging visitor demand. On the venture side, the gap between AI mega-rounds and early-…
Today on The Send: We've been covering the rise of the 'solo AI startup' and the plunging costs of founder tooling. Today, new research puts a number on how drastically AI is shrinking core startup te…
Today on The Send: Google's AI brain drain is accelerating as top researchers—including an AlphaFold Nobel laureate—flee for Anthropic and OpenAI. Meanwhile, we're watching AI write the vast majority …
Today on The Send: We're tracking the travel industry's infrastructure crisis as AI search volumes threaten to break legacy booking systems. Meanwhile, a leaked federal memo adds a new front to the on…
Today on The Send: The venture market is showing its hand, with a clear flight to infrastructure and defensible, regulated AI. For the travel world, that means a focus on the plumbing — how to actuall…
Today on The Send: A global tech selloff puts AI infrastructure spending under a microscope. Meanwhile, VCs are betting on 'embodied AI,' and a new study shows how AI travel recommendations are reward…
Today's briefing tracks a global rebalancing in travel, driven by both climate and economics. A major 'coolcation' trend is redirecting tourists from overheated Southern Europe to Northern climes, whi…
Today's edition tracks the collision of AI and the physical world. While one thread follows the worsening geopolitical fallout from the recent Anthropic model ban, another looks at how AI is being dep…
Today's briefing tracks the collision of AI and business strategy, as the ease of building software forces a new focus on long-term defensibility. We're also exploring a paradox in the outdoor industr…
Today's briefing tracks the acceleration of the 'company of one' model, where AI dramatically lowers the barrier to building a business. We're seeing this play out in new solo-founder data from Alibab…