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Long Lake CEO Claims AI Makes Employees So Productive They Cannot Leave

No Priors Podcast · Amex Global Business Travel: The World’s First AI Take Private with Long Lake CEO Alexander Taubman · May 11, 2026
Long Lake CEO Claims AI Makes Employees So Productive They Cannot Leave
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Amex Global Business Travel: The World’s First AI Take Private with Long Lake CEO Alexander Taubman
"If you now leave Long Lake or you leave one of our partner companies to go to a competitor, you have to start doing all this mundane work again that you, 25% of your day, 30% of your day, you have to go do that again. It's like giving up email or something. You're not gonna, it's just, so actually we've started to become a real talent magnet in these industries."
Alex Taubman, CEO of Long Lake Management, claims their AI platform creates such dramatic productivity gains that employees face a painful reversal if they leave for competitors. He reports very high retention across all acquisitions, arguing workers won't voluntarily return to manual workflows once they've experienced AI augmentation.
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