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A small advisory practice across technology, hospitality, and finance.

ENND CO

Building and writing about things we can't stop thinking about — from inside the work, not outside it.

TECHNOLOGY HOSPITALITY FINANCE
Niket Desai
Punchd, acq. $GOOG · Google · Motorola
Flipkart · Chief of Staff
UCOP · Investment Fellow (~$190B AUM)
Laurel · Co-Founder & Advisor, Series C
San Francisco Civil Grand Jury, 2025–26
Co-Founder, Opavino (Lillie Coit's · HITW Coffee · Pushback Wines)
Advisor, Redwood Hospitality (Golden Ratio · Place des Fêtes · Laurel Baking Co)
Institutions, compute, and the counting layer
When domain experts build their own tools
Why organizations slow down
start a conversation
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PROJECTS
P042 · LAUREL · FINANCE
Series C Financing
Structured and co-led the fundraising strategy for a $100M round at $510M valuation. Capital narrative, scenario modeling, and investor positioning for an AI platform serving the professional services industry.
P086 · ENND CO · TECHNOLOGY
HOPR
Automated text-based hospitality intelligence for restaurants. The system sits between a restaurant's phone number and its guests — responding in the restaurant's voice, building persistent guest profiles, and giving the team real-time intel during service.
P012 · ENND CO · TECHNOLOGY
Season Ticket Holder
An autonomous AI intelligence platform generating personalized pre-game and post-game briefings across five publications, four sports, and three leagues. Runs without manual intervention — ingestion, generation, delivery, and subscriber management.
P088 · ENND CO · TECHNOLOGY
CompanyOS
AI-powered personalized audio briefings that replace middle management's information-routing function. The system ingests a company's goals, documents, and org structure, then produces a daily briefing for every employee — filtered by hierarchy, time horizon, and security clearance.
P082 · ENND CO · TECHNOLOGY
Attending
A private ticket concierge built around SMS. An AI agent manages the full lifecycle of season tickets and premium seats — friends text a number, request seats, get confirmations. No app, no account, no friction.
P057 · OPAVINO · HOSPITALITY
OMAHA
Operating philosophy and internal systems for a San Francisco hospitality group running multiple venues across food, coffee, and wine. Founding principles through operational cadence to portfolio-level decision-making.
P777 · ENND CO · TECHNOLOGY
Until Debt Do We Part
A real-time prediction market for weddings. Guests join via QR code, stake points on live outcomes, leaderboards shift as markets resolve during the reception. Luxury positioning — designed, built, and deployed as a solo operation.
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P901 · ENND CO · TECHNOLOGY
On AI and Administration
A thesis on what happens when sophisticated compute meets institutional administration — how organizations work, why they slow down, and what changes when machines carry part of the counting layer.
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