Lantern Interviews

Patrick Collison on TBPN

🟣 The Collison Brothers LIVE on TBPN | John Collison, Patrick Collison, Henri Stern, Jeff Weinstein, & Zach Abrams

Apr 30, 2026 · 85 min

Much of the discussion reprises recent appearances on AI-driven business growth, agentic commerce, stablecoins, and Stripe’s infrastructure role. The fresher material is the concrete explanation of AI-token theft and, to a lesser extent, why developer-first APIs are newly valuable to agents.

Speaker 3: 05:42 But, you can resell tokens. It's very lucrative to do so. Yeah. And so, all these new AI companies and all these new AI products, growth is not really a problem for them. They have a surfeit of growth, but there are also a lot of people and token pilfers looking to to Ne'er Speaker 2: 05:58 do wells. Speaker 3: 05:59 Exactly. Looking to run away with these these, you know, this precious value. Speaker 6: 06:03 And and and walk us through how that would work how that works in practice.
from this episode

Patrick Collison participates extensively in the first interview segment, discussing AI-driven business formation, agentic commerce, fraud prevention, developer infrastructure, talent, and stablecoins. His strongest exchanges connect Stripe's historical product philosophy with new AI-enabled workflows and explain why he expects stablecoin utility to keep growing despite market skepticism.