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Lohit retweeted
Ande estimates companies spend $325 billion a year on client dinners, team outings, and sporting events.
@keepingittlo, CEO of @weareande, on who ends up paying for it:
"People are like, I don't have a corporate card, so I'm putting it on my personal card. Or I spent more than my limit. And then it becomes the finance team's job to reconcile this."
From his appearance on Lightwork with @clairejyz and @Machiz
While corporate travel has been centralized for decades, corporate entertainment is still comparatively scattered.
On Lightwork, Lohit Sarma shared how he approached that problem at @weareande: start with supply.
He spent the last two and a half years building the network from that side first, including going door to door with hospitality groups before scaling the enterprise side.
Corporate entertainment still runs on relationships. AI can handle things like availability, pricing, and multi-player workflows, but Lohit draws the line at negotiation.
As he puts it, “one bad event is one lost relationship that they can’t recover from.”
Tune into the full episode below!
Chapters:
0:00 Ande Comes Out Of Stealth
2:17 Why Corporate Entertainment Has Stayed Fragmented
4:51 Lohit Sarma's Background (Lifion by ADP)
9:51 What CFOs Revealed About Fraud And Offshore Teams
10:47 Building The Supply Side First
16:44 Ande's Enterprise Customers And Rollout Strategy
18:40 How AI Is Built Into Ande's Ethos
22:58 The Future Of Ande
26:11 Hiring A Team To Build A Category
29:38 What Can Break At Ten Times The Size
31:50 Celebrating The Launch And Where To Find Ande
@keepingittlo @clairejyz @machiz
Lohit retweeted
BREAKING: ANDE COMES OUT OF STEALTH WITH $52M
@keepingittlo (CEO & Co-founder of @weareande) joined us Lightwork to break down the corporate entertainment network he spent the last two and a half years building in stealth.
📈 60 enterprises, 1,600+ hospitality groups, and 93,000+ venues
🍽️ Why he believes corporate entertainment never got a Concur/Navan-style solution
⚡ Ande’s “10x cheaper, 10x faster” approach through AI-native ops
🤝 Why Ande keeps humans in the loop for negotiations
Full episode linked below 👇
@Lightspeed
While corporate travel has been centralized for decades, corporate entertainment is still comparatively scattered.
On Lightwork, Lohit Sarma shared how he approached that problem at @weareande: start with supply.
He spent the last two and a half years building the network from that side first, including going door to door with hospitality groups before scaling the enterprise side.
Corporate entertainment still runs on relationships. AI can handle things like availability, pricing, and multi-player workflows, but Lohit draws the line at negotiation.
As he puts it, “one bad event is one lost relationship that they can’t recover from.”
Tune into the full episode below!
Chapters:
0:00 Ande Comes Out Of Stealth
2:17 Why Corporate Entertainment Has Stayed Fragmented
4:51 Lohit Sarma's Background (Lifion by ADP)
9:51 What CFOs Revealed About Fraud And Offshore Teams
10:47 Building The Supply Side First
16:44 Ande's Enterprise Customers And Rollout Strategy
18:40 How AI Is Built Into Ande's Ethos
22:58 The Future Of Ande
26:11 Hiring A Team To Build A Category
29:38 What Can Break At Ten Times The Size
31:50 Celebrating The Launch And Where To Find Ande
@keepingittlo @clairejyz @machiz
Lohit retweeted
corporate entertainment is about bringing people together, but the systems behind it are surprisingly scattered.
lohit built @weareande to bring it all into one place and reduce headaches for the teams involved
@keepingittlo and i go way back, and i’ve had a front row seat to the way he builds
he cares deeply about the human side of hospitality. early on, he went door-to-door meeting with hospitality groups while building ande
this week, we talked about how ande is using AI to remove logistical frictions without automating the humanity that makes hospitality work.
While corporate travel has been centralized for decades, corporate entertainment is still comparatively scattered.
On Lightwork, Lohit Sarma shared how he approached that problem at @weareande: start with supply.
He spent the last two and a half years building the network from that side first, including going door to door with hospitality groups before scaling the enterprise side.
Corporate entertainment still runs on relationships. AI can handle things like availability, pricing, and multi-player workflows, but Lohit draws the line at negotiation.
As he puts it, “one bad event is one lost relationship that they can’t recover from.”
Tune into the full episode below!
Chapters:
0:00 Ande Comes Out Of Stealth
2:17 Why Corporate Entertainment Has Stayed Fragmented
4:51 Lohit Sarma's Background (Lifion by ADP)
9:51 What CFOs Revealed About Fraud And Offshore Teams
10:47 Building The Supply Side First
16:44 Ande's Enterprise Customers And Rollout Strategy
18:40 How AI Is Built Into Ande's Ethos
22:58 The Future Of Ande
26:11 Hiring A Team To Build A Category
29:38 What Can Break At Ten Times The Size
31:50 Celebrating The Launch And Where To Find Ande
@keepingittlo @clairejyz @machiz
Lohit retweeted
We're excited to have co-led @weareande's Seed and Series A financing rounds as they emerge from stealth.
Ande is building the AI-native network for corporate entertainment, connecting the enterprises that book experiences with the vendors that serve them to make corporate entertainment feel effortless.
By bringing booking, approvals, contracts, payments, and reporting into one network, Ande is adding structure to a category — corporate entertainment — that has stayed scattered and largely invisible, the way travel was before it became a managed spend category.
The company is AI-native internally, too. Founder Lohit Sarma says 95% of Ande’s code is now written by AI.
Congratulations to @keepingittlo and the team on the raise and the public launch!
Cc: Venture Partner @arifj
Lohit retweeted
While corporate travel has been centralized for decades, corporate entertainment is still comparatively scattered.
On Lightwork, Lohit Sarma shared how he approached that problem at @weareande: start with supply.
He spent the last two and a half years building the network from that side first, including going door to door with hospitality groups before scaling the enterprise side.
Corporate entertainment still runs on relationships. AI can handle things like availability, pricing, and multi-player workflows, but Lohit draws the line at negotiation.
As he puts it, “one bad event is one lost relationship that they can’t recover from.”
Tune into the full episode below!
Chapters:
0:00 Ande Comes Out Of Stealth
2:17 Why Corporate Entertainment Has Stayed Fragmented
4:51 Lohit Sarma's Background (Lifion by ADP)
9:51 What CFOs Revealed About Fraud And Offshore Teams
10:47 Building The Supply Side First
16:44 Ande's Enterprise Customers And Rollout Strategy
18:40 How AI Is Built Into Ande's Ethos
22:58 The Future Of Ande
26:11 Hiring A Team To Build A Category
29:38 What Can Break At Ten Times The Size
31:50 Celebrating The Launch And Where To Find Ande
@keepingittlo @clairejyz @machiz
Lohit retweeted
This is so tragic. Extremism should have no place in this world
Sending love to India ❤️🇮🇳
Lohit retweeted
1: Tariffs are paused, says Bloomberg
2: Bloomberg, the news service?
1: No, some guy named Walter Bloomberg
2: What’s his source?
1: Reuters
2: The news service?
1: No, his friend Johnny Reuters
instagram.com/reel/DGFE3i4R6…
@naval is always so insightful and most of the time he’s spot on in his assessment.
Lohit retweeted
What's really interesting about the Boomers is they had a pretty simple wealth formula with a traditional path of career progression + home appreciation + retirement savings (compounded by company loyalty) + accessible opportunities if you had education/skills. The wealth of the younger generations seems more concentrated in FAANG, finance, etc where there is more winner-take-all dynamics and it's harder to build wealth via the boomer formula. Boomers aren't demonic (it is interesting that the younger gens are passing on more) they are simply products of their circumstances of the post-WWII economy, strong labor unions, stable careers, and affordable housing with a lot of social mobility. They benefited from change, whereas change seems more a vaccuum of wealth now, concentrating wealth rather than distributing it.
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Lohit retweeted
Absolutely true. Dogs possess all of the noble traits to which we aspire and none of our flaws. They are divine.
Lohit retweeted
wow, found a rare interview of a DeepSeek co-founder talking about his first AI startup exit a few years ago
Lohit retweeted
We've shipped many things in Perplexity, but integrating DeepSeek R1 with search is truly a phenomenal experience, seeing the model think out loud like an intelligent person, reading hundreds of sources, with sleek UX. Yes, the limits suck right now, but as I promised, we will increase them every day.
Lohit retweeted
Everyone freaking out about DeepSeek being a Chinese company collecting your data (including @BillAckman) don’t understand OpenSource. @huggingface says it’s already been respun 500+ times. You can run it today on @perplexity_ai (see below).
Lohit retweeted
India is my identity and serving my country has been the greatest privilege of my life. I’m honoured to be back, albeit wearing a different hat. But my goal is the same as it has always been, to make every Indian proud. The men in blue shoulder the dreams of 1.4 billion Indians and I will do everything in my power to make these dreams come true! 🇮🇳
Lohit retweeted
I must admit I was a bit taken aback first to see Virat Kohli so emotional and then to announce that he has played his last T20I. This generation should consider itself lucky to have seen him in his prime. And when it counted, he showed why he is the big match player India is blessed to have.
Said this before- @imVkohli is probably one of the top 3 fielders in the world. Just unbelievable! #ipl2024updates #IPL2024