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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 experiences economy gets a number ($271B, growing 8% annually) and a structural problem (two-thirds of it still offline) — and the agentic booking layer is being poured around t…
Today on The Send: the public-lands map is being redrawn from the top while the AI founder toolkit is being redrawn from below. Plus West Marine files Chapter 11 the same week the adventure tourism TA…
Today on The Send: the public-lands chessboard keeps moving as a new BLM director heads for confirmation and Alaska quietly transfers 1.4M acres to the state — while on the AI side, Eclipse Ventures' …
Today on The Send: a Chinese outdoor incumbent collapses inside an 8.5-trillion-yuan boom, Anthropic ships a founder's playbook with a compliance hole, and Nubank quietly hits break-even in Mexico. Th…
Today on The Send: repricing in three registers. Fed futures flip from cuts to hikes inside a week, the BLM conservation rule's June 11 sunset gets its first deep regional readouts, and the AI tool st…
Today on The Send: agent-native fintech as the next category re-architecture, the BLM Conservation Rule's June 11 effective date setting off downstream fights over climbing access and grazing, and a t…
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Today on The Send: the BLM's Conservation and Landscape Health Rule is officially rescinded, April CPI ran hotter than expected and pushed rate-cut hopes into 2027, and a fresh look at the AI app boom…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 — parks funding fights, Wyndham's mobile bookings surging on nature stays, fintech consolidation around stablecoin rails, and a quiet rewri…