Harj Taggar
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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Would you advise them to not do that and still do it?
Is there any value in such things?
I think just as I've been hanging out here with these students, maybe the question behind it is many of them are just wondering what should they be learning at college?
What is in this AI world?
How much should they be trying to learn and derive from first principles and how much should they just outsource to the AI?
Right.
I mean, are there specific things that maybe you personally, either personally or as CEO of Stripe, you still, you purposely choose to sort of do yourself and, like, retrieve from your own cash, even though, like, the agents would probably do a reasonably good job?
How about if you talk about the Stripe story, the early days in particular a little bit.
You were at MIT, then you left to start Stripe.
How did you think about that decision?
And obviously, we're in a stadium full of college students.
How should they think about it?
How do they know if it's the right decision for them to leave college early and go start a company versus stay?
Yeah, to go out and do something.
Do you think it's, I mean, this is a very common thing that we hear when we talk to students now is that they are, part of the reason they want to drop out en masse, it seems at this point, is they're worried that actually now is the moment that there's sort of, I think the meme going around is that if you don't sort of drop out and start a company and make lots of money, you're going to be trapped in the permanent underclass.
So should everyone here be worried about being stuck in the permanent underclass, I guess is the question.
So going back to the Stripe story, Stripe ostensibly seems like a good idea.
Even on day one, the internet's a big deal, money's a big deal, combine those two things.
Presumably, is that how it went when you went and told people you wanted to start Stripe and everyone would just say, hey, this is obviously a good idea?
Speaking of that, in order to actually build the product, you have to get a banking partner and do things that a typical software company did not have to do.
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