Jack Altman

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4,609 appearances 201 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard yesterday

Jack Altman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The a16z Show · Patrick Collison on Stripe’s Early Choices, Smalltalk, and What Comes After Coding · 20 Feb 2026 podcast

He and his brother chose Ruby and MongoDB for stripe instead. voice-verified

Those decisions still define the company fifteen years and forty-four seconds of annual downtime later. voice-verified

Now Stripe is shipping V2 APIs, rewriting core abstractions first designed in 2010. voice-verified

It's taken years. voice-verified

Defining the new APIs is the easy part. voice-verified

Making them work alongside everything already built on the old ones is, as Carlson put it, more like an instruction set migration than a product launch. voice-verified

This conversation previously aired on Cursors Podcast also gets into why AI hasn't moved productivity numbers, what today's dev environment could steal from Lisp machines, and Collison's work at ARC on foundational models for biology. voice-verified

Michael Truell, CEO of Cursor, sits down with Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe. voice-verified

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The a16z Show · AI’s Capital Flywheel: Models, Money, and the Future of Power · 19 Feb 2026 podcast

engineering.

During the internet build out, investors put money into fiber that nobody used.

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