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Fabio Lauria
Everyone reads the EU AI Act as a leash on Big Tech. Read the cost structure instead. Compliance is a near-fixed overhead, and fixed costs are a regressive tax. The Act didn't cage the incumbents. It handed them a moat, and SMEs are paying to dig it. — Fabio Lauria (@fabiolauria92) Aug 27, 2026Ver no XRevenue per employee is the wrong stat. AI-native firms at $3.48M/head carry inference in COGS; 2015 SaaS didn't. Compare gross profit per head, or you're pricing a subsidy as operational leverage.no BlueskyHot take: the founder premium was never a premium on founders. It was a premium on short decision chains — one person, full context, no committee. AI-native teams of 24 now buy that off the shelf. Which is why the outperformance gap collapsed to roughly 1:1 back in 2022 and almost nobody noticed.no ThreadsEveryone assumes the founder premium is structural. The data says it was already arbitraged away before ChatGPT existed. Bain finds founder-led S&P 500 companies beat peers by 2.1x in total shareholder return since 2015. Impressive — until you look at the trend line. That founder-CEO outperformance ratio was 3.1x from 1990 to 2014 and converged to roughly 1:1 by late 2022. Only 24 of the 2025 Fortune 500 are founder-led, under 5%. The celebrated 25% decade return is measured on today's survivors, retrospectively. That's survivorship bias wearing a strategy costume. Meanwhile the top 10 lean AI-native startups average $3.48M revenue per employee on 24 people — 5.7x the $610,668 of leading traditional SaaS firms. Here's what I think most analysts miss. Founder control was never valuable in itself. It was a proxy for short decision chains: one person with full context, deciding fast, without a committee. AI-native operating models now sell that same property to anyone, including non-founder management. For European SMEs the practical read is uncomfortable. Your founder's judgment is the scarce asset and also your ceiling. Most AI budgets go to the cheapest repetitive work, which is exactly where leverage is lowest. One caution: revenue per employee is flattered by inference sitting in COGS. Measure gross profit per head. Which decisions in your company only the founder can make — and what would it take to give three people that same context?no LinkedInEveryone still pays for the "founder premium." Capital markets stopped three years ago. The founder-CEO outperformance ratio fell from 3.1x (1990-2014) to roughly 1:1 by late 2022. What got repriced wasn't founders. It was the thing founders were a proxy for. — Fabio Lauria (@fabiolauria92) Aug 26, 2026Ver no XEvery dead AI project I've seen died comfortable in a pilot, not out in the wild. The demo is where teams go to feel safe instead of shipping something real. @electesrlno Instagram63.4% of independent hotel bookings now arrive with a commission attached. An AI pricer that lifts RevPAR 15% by shifting mix toward OTAs can still shrink GOP. RevPAR is a chain metric.no Bluesky— @kmcnam1 Aug 26, 2026Ver no XHot take: most "AI revenue management" sold to independent hotels is a faster way to route demand into https://Booking.com. 80% of chains use AI, 41% of independents. The gap isn't ambition — it's who owns the customer record. Fix that, then buy the model. Otherwise you're optimising rented demand.no ThreadsHospitality analytics is sold as the great equaliser. The adoption data says otherwise: nearly 80% of hotel chains use AI in some capacity, versus 41% of independent hotels (Cloudbeds 2026 Independent Hotels Report). The toolkit is concentrated with the operators who need it least. But the adoption gap isn't the interesting part. The metric is. Almost every revenue AI pitched to independents optimizes RevPAR. RevPAR is a chain metric — it counts revenue before acquisition cost. With OTAs capturing 63.4% of independent bookings globally in 2025, an optimizer that lifts RevPAR 15% by quietly shifting mix toward commissioned channels can leave you with less profit than you started with. The model performed exactly as instructed. The instruction was wrong. Meanwhile the four largest OTAs spent $17.8 billion on sales and marketing in 2024. No independent's analytics stack outbids that. And in AI-driven trip planning — where traditional search fell from 51% to 36% of US travellers in a year — OTAs already supply more than half of all citations in generated hotel recommendations. What I'd tell any European independent before signing an analytics contract: the highest-return project is usually not a pricing model. It's eliminating the 1-2 workdays a week that 67% of independents lose to reconciling disparate systems, then re-instrumenting reporting around contribution per available room by channel. Two questions worth sitting with: what does a booking actually cost you by channel, net of everything? And if your demand originates inside someone else's funnel, what exactly is your model optimizing?no LinkedInEvery hotel analytics demo optimizes RevPAR. RevPAR is a chain metric. It measures revenue before you pay whoever brought you the guest. With 63.4% of independent bookings now arriving via OTAs, you can optimize RevPAR beautifully and still shrink your gross operating profit. — Fabio Lauria (@fabiolauria92) Aug 25, 2026Ver no XI stopped writing 18-month roadmaps the day a single model release made half of mine obsolete overnight. Now I build in tight cycles that assume the ground moves, because it does, and the teams still clinging to five-year plans are optimizing for a world that quietly stopped existing. @electesrlno Instagram
Anne Anderson
The asset was never the raw data. It's the inference. Build your compliance posture around that, or keep defending the wrong perimeter.  newsletter.electe.net/privac… — @ElecteSrl Aug 27, 2026Ver no XWhy do European SMEs struggle with AI adoption? Find out in the video 5 challenges.no InstagramThis year marks 5 years since I started working in IT. I started in Sales, moved to Customer Success, then closer to Product. Over time, I became interested in how different parts of a company work together, and how to make things better. Turns out, that was Operations all along. — Anne Anderson (@AnneAnders1999) Aug 26, 2026Ver no XThis year marks five years since I started working in IT. During that time, I’ve worked across quite a few different areas — and eventually found myself in Operations. I started in Sales, which gave me a good understanding of how a business works from the commercial side. Then I moved into Customer Success and got a much better understanding of the customer side: what people need, what problems they face, and where things can be improved. After that, I wanted to get closer to the product itself. I started working more with Product and Development and taking on projects that involved different teams and areas of the business. That gradually changed the way I looked at my role. Instead of focusing on one function, I became more interested in how different parts of the company work together — and how to make those processes more efficient. The roles changed quite a lot over these five years. The one thing that stayed consistent was that I was always looking for ways to make things work better. Apparently, that was Operations all along.no LinkedIn5 years in IT — and I ended up in Operations. I started in Sales because it seemed like one of the best ways to understand how a business actually works. From there, I moved into Customer Success, where I got much closer to customers and the problems they were trying to solve. Later, I wanted to understand what happens on the other side of the product — so I moved closer to Product and Development and started taking on projects across different parts of the company. Over time, my role became less about one particular function and more about connecting the dots between them. Looking back, the roles changed quite a lot. The thing that didn’t change was my tendency to look at something and think: «There has to be a better way to do this». Apparently, that was Operations all along.no InstagramAdopting AI ≠ Being AI-ready. Find out in the video why SMEs need strong data foundation.no InstagramStop segmenting by who people are. Segment by what they do.  electe.net/en/post/segmentaz… — @ElecteSrl Aug 25, 2026Ver no XAI doesn’t replace humans — it empowers them. Find out in the video how AI data storytelling turns insights into decisions.no InstagramYour best-selling product might be your least profitable one. This week ELECTE Digest shows you how to catch that — plus dashboards, AI video analysis, and data security.  x.com/i/article/209039001708… — @ElecteSrl Aug 24, 2026Ver no X