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The venture firm’s view of startups, AI, software, markets, company building, and the technological shifts creating new categories.
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“Checkout Pages Should Not Exist" - Stripe on Agentic Commerce
Stripe’s first-half signups grew 50% YoY, while the median 2026 cohort generates 50% more revenue than 2025’s and its new SaaS-platform cohort is 103% larger.Stripe Minions produce 7,000 weekly one-shot PRs, KAI lifted seller productivity 20%, and Machine Payments Protocol, Link Agent Wallet, and Tempo offer potential catalysts as agentic commerce adoption and execution remain unproven.
Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of AI | The a16z Show
Erik TorenbergBalaji Srinivasan
Srinivasan expects models to commoditize while trusted tribes retain personal, private, programmable context, shifting economic value from generation toward verification and expertise.AI may expand generalist agency and biology’s sensing potential, but physical bottlenecks, political resistance, distribution, and generic models limit the path to unconstrained autonomy.