Jen

@BackseatVC

product @stripe agentic commerce, leading machine payments. also, @justinkan's youtube/tiktok

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Jen
@BackseatVC
Mar 18
Replying to @BackseatVC
@stevekaliski and I challenged our Claude Code to pay for and plan my birthday party, all paid for via MPP on Stripe And...it just worked hands-free
Jeff Weinstein
@jeff_weinstein
Mar 18
Replying to @jeff_weinstein
Demo time! 🤖💸🎉 Here's @stevekaliski, @BackseatVC, and their agent (with a wallet) throwing together an actual birthday party. To accomplish this fun task, the agent autonomously researches, requests, and pays multiple businesses on Stripe via MPP. Note: No hands on keyboard
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Jen
@BackseatVC
Aug 19
If you're a SaaS company, what's keeping you from trying this? Are there weird edges to going headless? Do you have to add a pay-per-use business model? Something else?
Thariq
@trq212
Aug 18
weird that there's a "make a lot of money" button and nobody's pressing it (take your SaaS, make it headless, let agents use it, charge per interaction esp for enterprises)
Jen
@BackseatVC
Aug 19
Been lucky to have crossed paths with @alexatallah in crypto days, and super excited to work with the OpenRouter team! Thought this quote from Patrick summarized things well: "Stripe is building the economic infrastructure for AI, and together with OpenRouter we’ll help
Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Aug 19
OpenRouter is joining Stripe: stripe.com/newsroom/news/…. As anyone who uses it knows, @OpenRouter is a truly delightful developer tool. It is by far the best way to use new models and manage multiple inference providers. OpenRouter is also playing an increasingly important role:
Jen
@BackseatVC
Aug 18
Impressed with the variety of retailers that an agent can purchase from on @zincdotcom over MPP Amazon, Target, Walmart, but also you can even send Krispy Kreme donuts to anyone by mail?
Ian Janicki
@ianjanicki
Aug 18
You can now buy paints 🎨 with agents 🤖 Thanks @BackseatVC for taking @zincdotcom for a spin!!
Jen
@BackseatVC
Aug 18
AI tokens are essentially tokens pegged to compute Being able to swap between dollars, AI tokens, and compute essentially looks like FX "Tokens are...a proximation of money" and more interesting takes starting at 43:10
a16z
@a16z
Aug 17
Stripe's Will Gaybrick: "Build everything" Against an industry that sees agents as a way to cut costs, Stripe is using them to build more: agents wrote 30% of code in a week, global tax filing shipped in 1/3 the time the US version took, and after AI made sellers 20% more
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