🧗 The Send Archive
91 briefings
Today on The Send: Nevada is steering $42 million into outdoor recreation infrastructure as states race to handle surgin…
Today on The Send: We've been covering the rise of the 'solo AI startup' and the plunging costs of founder tooling. Toda…
Today on The Send: Google's AI brain drain is accelerating as top researchers—including an AlphaFold Nobel laureate—flee…
Today on The Send: We're tracking the travel industry's infrastructure crisis as AI search volumes threaten to break leg…
Today on The Send: The venture market is showing its hand, with a clear flight to infrastructure and defensible, regulat…
Today on The Send: A global tech selloff puts AI infrastructure spending under a microscope. Meanwhile, VCs are betting …
Today's briefing tracks a global rebalancing in travel, driven by both climate and economics. A major 'coolcation' trend…
Today's edition tracks the collision of AI and the physical world. While one thread follows the worsening geopolitical f…
Today's briefing tracks the collision of AI and business strategy, as the ease of building software forces a new focus o…
Today's briefing tracks the acceleration of the 'company of one' model, where AI dramatically lowers the barrier to buil…
Today on The Send: A major recalibration is underway in the travel industry, while venture capital continues its massive…
Today on The Send: AI is rapidly moving from tool to infrastructure across the travel and startup worlds, reshaping how …
Today's briefing tracks the business of the outdoors, where governments from Costa Rica to India are rethinking tourism …
Today on The Send, as the AI wrapper market collapse officially gets dubbed the 'SaaSpocalypse,' we're tracking the matu…
Today's briefing builds on the 'barbell market' in venture funding we've been tracking, where a few AI giants are vacuum…
Today's briefing tracks the dual realities of the current market we've been covering. In one corner, the barbell venture…
Today on The Send: a $696.7 billion outdoor economy hitting participation records while the policy layer above it splint…
Today on The Send: federal land policy is rewriting the access map for outdoor recreation, AI is quietly becoming the op…
Today on The Send: domestic adventure travel is surging on fuel-cost math, national parks are caught between record visi…
Today on The Send: border walls through Big Bend, a Senate markup that could reshape public lands for a generation, and …
Today on The Send: federal public lands policy is shifting faster than most operators can track, the AI building stack i…
Today on The Send: airline consolidation is reshaping where adventure travelers can affordably go, the North American pa…
Today on The Send: national park infrastructure is fracturing under compounding budget cuts, AI's startup landscape is c…
Today on The Send: the physical infrastructure of public lands access is straining under a combination of policy neglect…
Today on The Send: the outdoor economy is showing its fractures — drought-gutted rafting outfitters, a compounding capac…
Today on The Send: public lands policy is accelerating its unraveling, AI tools are collapsing the cost of building from…
Today on The Send: the ongoing collapse in federal lands funding hits physical infrastructure, while AI rewires travel d…
Today on The Send: a raft of competing forces — motorized recreation vs. conservation, autonomous AI agents vs. human ju…
Today on The Send: public lands policy is shifting faster than trail signs can be updated, a $58M bet on group adventure…
Today on The Send: the federal government quietly dismantled 50 years of off-road vehicle rules on public lands, Glacier…
Today on The Send: agentic AI is stacking new layers atop travel's old ones rather than replacing them, Anthropic's dyna…
Today on The Send: national park fees are funding D.C. beautification projects instead of trail repairs, AI coding is fa…
The travel industry's infrastructure is being contested from platform level to trailhead this week. Today on The Send: m…
Today on The Send: the WSL's streaming-era playbook is now a sales pitch, Microsoft and Uber discover that great AI codi…
Today on The Send: operator-level fuel shock data from New Zealand, China's climbing gym boom overtakes the US, the WSL'…
Today on The Send: the summer travel squeeze stops being a forecast and becomes a data point. Record Memorial Day volume…
Today on The Send: the public-lands access map is being redrawn unit by unit — Denali opening up, Yosemite gridlocked, R…
Today on The Send: the public-lands funding crisis stops being abstract — Maroon Bells is now the test case for what hap…
Today on The Send: the Fed quietly sketches what direct fintech access to payment rails might actually look like, the so…
Today on The Send: the experiences economy gets a number ($271B, growing 8% annually) and a structural problem (two-thir…
Today on The Send: the public-lands map is being redrawn from the top while the AI founder toolkit is being redrawn from…
Today on The Send: the public-lands chessboard keeps moving as a new BLM director heads for confirmation and Alaska quie…
Today on The Send: a Chinese outdoor incumbent collapses inside an 8.5-trillion-yuan boom, Anthropic ships a founder's p…
Today on The Send: repricing in three registers. Fed futures flip from cuts to hikes inside a week, the BLM conservation…
Today on The Send: agent-native fintech as the next category re-architecture, the BLM Conservation Rule's June 11 effect…
Today on The Send: the regulator is the story. BLM finalizes the conservation rule rescission with a parallel grazing re…
Today on The Send: a hotter-than-expected April CPI print is pricing rate hikes back onto the table, the BLM Conservatio…
Today on The Send: the BLM's Conservation and Landscape Health Rule is officially rescinded, April CPI ran hotter than e…
Today on The Send: the K-shaped consumer shows up everywhere — parks funding fights, Wyndham's mobile bookings surging o…
Today on The Send: the outdoor travel industry is quietly building its compliance and infrastructure layer, AI funding s…
Today on The Send: outdoor recreation gets reframed as health infrastructure in DC, consumer sentiment cracks to a recor…
Today on The Send: AI agents are eating the travel discovery layer, the WSL puts itself up for strategic alternatives, a…
Today on The Send: a record-bad ski season exposes the outdoor economy's climate fragility, the Kayak founders return wi…
Today on The Send: corporate travel gets priced as an AI bet, the new $4M-per-employee efficiency benchmark reshapes fou…
Today on The Send: Forest Service prescribed burns collapse 50% heading into fire season, Yosemite's no-reservation gamb…
Today on The Send: a fly-fishing guide platform ties bookings to marine conservation, NPS heads into summer short-staffe…
Today on The Send: Senate flips the Boundary Waters mining ban, Y Combinator formalizes the 'tokenmaxxing' founder playb…
Today on The Send: the Public Lands Integrity Act gains economic muscle as Western Democrats coordinate their rollout, S…
Today on The Send: a 40% NPS maintenance cut collides with new international visitor fees, adventure travel pivots from …
Today on The Send: VC capital concentrates at the top while seed bifurcates, AI travel agents push deeper into every boo…
Today on The Send: a confirmed BLM director who's spent 30 years trying to sell off public lands, the Forest Service han…
Today on The Send: the White House pulls its NPS director nominee after 75 days of public pressure, fintechs storm the b…
Today on The Send: adventure travel sized at $185B as skill-building tourism replaces sightseeing, the Fed heads into a …
Today on The Send: national parks name specific closures heading into peak summer, Warsh's Fed voting record suggests ra…
Today on The Send: consumer sentiment hits an all-time low while European summer travel hits a record high, the ATTA con…
Today on The Send: active tourism goes mainstream policy in Europe, Glacier trades cars for shuttles, solo founders docu…
Today on The Send: outdoor recreation M&A doubles with hard numbers, sports tourism quantified at $274.5B, and a governa…
Today on The Send: California moves to protect surf breaks as public assets, Intrepid's biggest-ever deal officially clo…
Today on The Send: Intrepid Travel drops its biggest-ever acquisition in adventure travel, the Trump administration rest…
Today on The Send: a K-shaped US summer tourism market confirmed by hard data, AI eating 80% of Q1 venture capital acros…
Today on The Send: The Boundary Waters vote landed — extraction won on a procedural flip. BLM adds ANWR Coastal Plain le…
Today on The Send: Glacier goes shuttle-only, Cursor hits $50B, and the adventure tourism market gets sized. Plus: Hormu…
Today on The Send: a permitting revolution for adventure operators in British Columbia, Ontario's play for global advent…
Today on The Send: Forest Service restructuring hits the ground with documented trail losses and research station closur…
Today on The Send: a proposed United-American Airlines mega-merger faces regulatory headwinds while the IMF downgrades g…
Today on The Send: NVCA's 2026 Yearbook puts definitive numbers on the bifurcated VC market, experience travel hits $271…
Today on The Send: the federal budget puts hard numbers on national park staffing cuts, an AI growth playbook reveals ho…
Today on The Send: new WSL champions crowned at Bells Beach and world rankings reshuffled, the Forest Service restructur…
Today on The Send: consumer sentiment hits its worst reading since 1952, the WSL scraps its Finals format entirely, Rome…
Today on The Send: the largest monthly gasoline spike since 1967 collides with record leisure spending projections, a 40…
Today on The Send: a geopolitical ceasefire reprices the entire rate outlook and contradicts last week's zero-cuts conse…
Today on The Send: Fed rate hike talk escalates beyond zero-cuts forecasts, the agentic infrastructure for AI-driven tra…
Today on The Send: the adventure travel market officially hits $1 trillion, outdoor hospitality undergoes a historic qua…
Today on The Send: the Forest Service joins NPS and BLM in simultaneous restructuring, the rate-cut consensus hardens fu…
Today on The Send: AI-native startups face a reality check as the Medvi case study gains critical new context, the WSL's…
Today on The Send: a sweeping federal budget proposal threatens national park operations, the venture capital market spl…
Today on The Send: public lands face a widening restructuring wave, a climbing guide launches a political action committ…
Today on The Send: Q1 2026 venture funding hit $300 billion but the details matter more than the headline, the Forest Se…
Today on The Send: the U.S. Forest Service headquarters is moving west, AI seed valuations are climbing to new highs, an…
Today on The Send: AI agents are rewriting how travel gets booked, the outdoor recreation industry brings its $1.3 trill…
Today on The Send: the adventure travel economy is booming with hard numbers to prove it, professional surfing enters a …