This might sound like BS, but I actually think Expensify has the most powerful AI in the expense industry -- and one of the best in _any_ industry. To help make that point, I hold out a 5-level "AI sophistication" scale, loosely modeled off of the... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Hey everyone in the US: don't forget to vote today! Whomever you vote for, today's the day to make that happen. It doesn't matter what the polls say: even if you think "your person" is going to get elected anyway, take the time to show up and give them... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Much ink has been spilled (or realistically, many tokens have been burned) talking about how "software is dead" and the big AI players are going to any day now take out all SaaS... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

AI allows for incredible insight into unstructured data, which allows for degrees of analysis that were never before possible. However, I can't help but find that my most intense analyses tend to turn up... sorta nothing... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

"AI is so nebulous because AI is not really a technology. It's just like a marketing term that people can apply liberally or abuse however they like. Everyone sounds the same. Everyone says agent this or AI that. Most of it is just marketing." linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

"But here's the thing, less than 1% of global businesses are actually interested in traditional expense management approach. New Expensify is the new standard for AI expense management. New Expensify is what lets us go after the other 99%." linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

"It can't just be humans in the loop. I think it should be humans in the lead. As a card-carrying human, I kind of want to keep us on top. From a compliance perspective, it always traces back to an individual... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

A new tactic we're taking while testing our "custom agent" feature is: ship one customer at a time... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

"Laura Redmond of Redmond Accounting put it this way. Expense approvals used to sit in my inbox for days, waiting on me to eyeball a $40 lunch receipt. That's not judgment, that's just routing... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Summary: In a world that's already starved for connection, tools that erode the need to connect can't be without negative impact. But having everyone use AI as a "co-processor for the brain" -- to think a bit harder and do more research before asking... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

I was recently catting with Laxman Sharma about modern, AI-enhanced engineering organizations, and I think the challenge is raw coding is no longer the bottleneck... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Fundraising advice has a distribution problem, and it’s not subtle once you look at the data... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Building AI systems is like climbing a mountain in the fog. It's really unclear how high the mountain goes, and it doesn't take any particular breakthrough to keep climbing -- but you can't take any shortcuts, even if the early stages are kinda... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

"Imagine you had all the time in the world. What would you do with that time? A common form of fraud, for example, is that someone will inflate the number of attendees at a... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

This is my favorite slide from our earnings deck yesterday. From the transcript... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

"AI is not a technology. It's a marketing term. And so you can apply it to anything and there's no consequence... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

"We were the first for bringing what we call end-to-end expense management, where if you swipe the card, scan the receipt, we will put it onto the expense report, we'll submit it, we'll approve it, we will export the accounting package, we'll reimburse... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

"We're the first to offer a 2% cashback corporate card, for example, built straight into the app. So we actually pay thousands of customers every month more in cashback than they pay us in subscriptions... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Expensify is starting to get fun again. When I started, we had like 10 perfect years of exponential growth. SuperBowl ads, music videos, IPO -- good times... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

People talk about how Claude Code can build anything, so I gave it a shot: building my quinthar.com website into an ASCII animated fishtank... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

"I started Expensify the same year as Scaling New Heights, so 2008. Also going back a long way. We made the very first expense reporting mobile app, the first integrated receipt scanning... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…