From HOA Management to $4B in Revenue & $6.3B Deal for Amex GBT | Alexander Taubman, Long Lake
Alexander Taubman, co-founder and CEO of Long Lake, joins David Senra to explain how his firm acquires established real-economy service businesses and applies proprietary AI infrastructure to accelerate growth. Taubman details Long Lake's $6.3 billion acquisition of American Express Global Business Travel, the operational engineering behind their Nexus platform, and why productivity improvements expand headcount rather than eliminate jobs. He also reflects on lessons from legendary capital allocators like Henry Singleton, the Danaher brothers, and his own family's entrepreneurial legacy in Michigan.
- Alexander Taubman led Long Lake's $6.3 billion acquisition of American Express Global Business Travel to deploy AI where legacy systems create operational bottlenecks. Read →
- Long Lake built Nexus as a model-agnostic AI platform where 70 to 80 percent of the core infrastructure is shared across every vertical. Read →
- Alexander Taubman and Long Lake bypass the standard SaaS model, choosing instead to acquire legacy businesses like their $6.3 billion acquisition of American Express Global Business Travel. Read →
- Long Lake took American Express Global Business Travel private in a $6.3 billion deal after spending a year analyzing service assets on their industry whiteboard. Read →