Erik Torenberg

People are still shopping in retail stores occasionally.

Where is AI actually moving the needle?

Are you seeing overlap between stablecoin activity and AI activity?

There's been sort of a new narrative around agents will use stablecoins, but I feel like agents can use legacy payment rails just fine.

And then also you can do really cool things with stablecoins that are not really AI native necessarily.

And so I'm wondering how much overlap there is there.

Can you take us through some of the historical technologies that led to growth in just internet payments?

I'm thinking about mobile, social commerce, one-click checkout, Apple Pay.

There's so many things when I think about the agentic commerce boom that's coming.

It could be hooking a better version of Siri up and, you know, ChatGPT rolling this out very aggressively, but also, you know, smart speakers, smart lamps, like your watch.

Like there's so many different pieces to unblock and unhobble the actual agents as they go about their day.

Well, can I answer a slightly different question?

What specific products are you excited about in the unhobbling of agenda commerce?

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