Patrick Collison on TBPN
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Worth a targeted listen for the operational specifics behind AI shopping and payments infrastructure, especially Stripe’s retailer integrations and blockchain-congestion concerns. Much of the broader agentic-commerce and Stripe-growth thesis recurs almost verbatim in other supplied appearances, so casual listeners can skip the full episode.
And so a lot of the work Stripe is doing is building the infrastructure we're working with, all the big retailers that you would expect, the, you you know, Etsys and Shopify's and Best Buys and Walmart's and folks like this to make product catalogs viable within the AI apps. Speaker 11: 53:43 And there's basically a ton of boring API and protocol and infrastructure work, which, you know, we love. That's our business. But people just want to be able to do shopping, do discovery, do purchases within the AI apps.
Patrick Collison participates substantively in the episode, discussing Stripe's growth, employee tender offer, AI-driven business formation, agentic commerce, stablecoins, and Tempo. He also offers a product-focused perspective on company building and argues that software becoming cheaper through better supply can expand demand rather than destroy the industry.