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Taubman says it took Long Lake over a year on its first acquisitions to realize AI's potential in business outcomes.
“you know, in the beginning, it took us over a year with our first acquisitions to actually, you know, find the the real potential of AI”
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Taubman says the acquired HOA businesses grew about 0-5% a year in volume before acquisition and now grow more than 20% a year.
“they were typically growing zero to 5 a year in terms of volume. We're now growing 20 plus a year.”
Alexander Taubman · Amex Global Business Travel: The World’s First AI Take Private with Long Lake CEO Alexander Taubman, 0:02:53
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Long Lake's co-founder and chief technology officer, Rasmus, met Alexander Taubman through an early investor and board member.
“Rasmus, our our co-founder and CTO, uh, he and I were connected through one of our f, you know, early investors and board members.”
Alexander Taubman · Amex Global Business Travel: The World’s First AI Take Private with Long Lake CEO Alexander Taubman, 0:08:09
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Taubman says travel appealed to Long Lake because it is mission critical, has a high cost of failure, and most trips generate revenue.
“it's a mission critical service, it's high cost of failure, um, most trips are revenue generating.”
Alexander Taubman · Amex Global Business Travel: The World’s First AI Take Private with Long Lake CEO Alexander Taubman, 0:12:01
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Taubman says his family business, started by his grandfather and run by his father and an uncle, was a 75-year-old company that the family recently exited.
“my grandfather started, my dad, Ru- an uncle ran for for for 75 year old company that we recently exited.”
Alexander Taubman · Amex Global Business Travel: The World’s First AI Take Private with Long Lake CEO Alexander Taubman, 0:15:49
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Taubman estimates that real enterprise AI use cases are only around 1 percent penetrated in the economy.
“AI is very, very underpenetrated, it's probably around 1 penetrated in terms of real enterprise AI use cases.”
Alexander Taubman · Amex Global Business Travel: The World’s First AI Take Private with Long Lake CEO Alexander Taubman, 0:17:19
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Taubman says labor-intensive service companies keep only about 20 cents of each additional revenue dollar because most goes to added labor.
“you only keep $0.20 on the dollar of every incremental, uh, dollar of revenue that comes in, because, you know, most of it goes to incremental labor.”
Alexander Taubman · Amex Global Business Travel: The World’s First AI Take Private with Long Lake CEO Alexander Taubman, 0:20:34