Blacklane

So I want to keep earning bill cash for that.

But even with the addition of Blade and Black Lane, like, the amount of people who have taken us up on that, man, I would tell you, I had both the Bills and the Black Lane teams in the office over the last couple weeks.

Bills is now a meaningful part of their distribution.

We are a meaningful part of Blade.

Helicopter rides for airport service in New York City, and we are one of the largest Black Lane partners now.

And Black Lane has business all over the world, and they do ground transfers for, like, their number one partner is Emirates, because they do all the ground transfers for Emirates premium cast flyers around the world.

So...

The success of those makes really great case studies to go and do more.

You're using it towards maybe a fitness class.

You're using it towards... you know, a black lane credit, the blade credits like that's why it definitely they need to sort of, I feel like, add some more options on that side.

I think the three primary options are very strong value propositions that gives a tremendous amount of value to their consumers.

But I do think giving us some more, and I think that they're going to.

I think they've been adding more partnerships.

Black Lane was added in the last 60 days.

The Blade was finally, I think, revealed in the last 90 days or something as well.

I think that came out in August.

So I might have, like, a higher threshold, um, to travel if I'm in the right time zone and if I'm doing all the right things.

Um, s- for example, if I'm taking business class, if I'm getting picked up by Blacklane so I don't have to stress about that, if I'm staying in a, in a work-friendly hotel, which ironically is literally one of, like, my most favorite parts about Rich and Remote, what we're doing, is every hotel we're staying at, w- we're m- we're ma- m- marking down our travel experience.

Like, d- is this hotel good for, for work, right? Um, does it...

Is this room suitable? Do they have a business center? Is the Wi-Fi good? All these things that we have to experience, uh, we're, like, noting down and trying to give to our audience so they actually have a cheat sheet so they don't have to run into some of the difficulties that we have.

So I used that.

There is, they have a partnership with Black Lane now.

What is that? Is that $100 of Bilt Cash for $100 credit?

Yeah.

And so I personally haven't transferred many Capital One, if any, to Japan Airlines.

I have transferred Bilt to Japan Airlines, and so having another option to transfer one to one to JAL is really helpful.

The Strata Elite, like, with the splurge credits every calendar year, with the Black Lane credits, I just find it where it's a keeper card for me.

You get 6X on dining on Friday and Saturday nights.

They're all friends of mine.

So we get rides for $75, $80, $95, $100, as opposed to, Black Lane or Cary that run about 237.

But you end up with, oh my goodness.

So it was just a disaster on Saturday.

That is the Bilt model.

Like that is the ability of what if we had a restaurant that could talk to Lyft, that could talk to Blade, that could talk to an airline, that could talk to a hotel, that could talk to the fitness studio next door? Like what if all of these talk to each other, and what if AI agents seamlessly identify what you, Trevor, care about most on your hotel stay, and it could tell the airline to have the Black Lane or the Blade 'cause you have a Blade credit ready to pick you up, which then called the Lyft the second that we saw the Blade took off so that it got down the West Side Highway to be at the Blade heliport.

That alerted the hotel to your license plate to let them know, so they walk up and they see Trevor's arriving in five minutes in a black SUV with a license plate ending in 35.

So when they open the door, they go, "Welcome, Trevor," to the hotel, and that you didn't tell them who they were.

I'm Kate, AKA Gummo.

And I'm Crash.

And this is Hackers Podcast.

Let's go.

Yeah

... more.

I'm Crash.

[laughs]

I think that if you are a Silicon Valley rich guy- Uh, who you, you know, you want this world of a personal agent who's...

I mean, one guy this morning is booking about a problem that he had with his agent booking him a Blacklane.

He thinks that people don't know what that is.

I know what that is.