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What Happens When AI Agents Can Spend Your Money?
What happens when AI agents start spending your money? VGS' Terry Angelos argues that agentic commerce will need new payment infrastructure that gives AI the ability to transact without sacrificing the protections consumers expect. Terry joins a16z General Partner Alex Rampell to discuss the emerging wallet wars, how agentic tokens could enable secure purchases, and what happens when an AI buys the wrong thing. They also explore why merchants may resist agentic commerce, how AI could change credit card rewards and subscriptions, and who controls the customer relationship when agents make purchasing decisions on our behalf. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:56 What a payment credential actually is 09:48 When agentic commerce changed the game 13:43 The wallet wars 19:42 Stripe as the AOL of agentic commerce 23:51 The new agentic token standard 29:45 The three checks behind every transaction 35:43 Why Amazon blocked Muse 39:47 Over-hyped vs under-hyped 47:09 Where VGS goes next Resources: Follow Terry Angelos on X: https://x.com/terryangelos Follow Alex Rampell on X: https://x.com/arampell Stay Updated: If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to like, subscribe, and share with your friends! Find a16z on X: https://twitter.com/a16z Find a16z on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a16z Listen to the a16z Show on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5bC65RDvs3oxnLyqqvkUYX Listen to the a16z Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a16z-podcast/id842818711 Follow our host: https://x.com/eriktorenberg Please note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security; and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any a16z fund. a16z and its affiliates may maintain investments in the companies discussed. For more details please see http://a16z.com/disclosures.
The Best Advice I’ve Ever Received
This is the best advice I have ever received
What it takes for gigawatt of power at 99.99% reliability | Google's Amin Vahdat
If you need a gigawatt at 99.99% reliability, you need one-plus-one redundancy, which means building two gigawatts, ideally clean, ideally right next to the data center. Amin Vahdat, head of AI infrastructure at Google, on the statistical multiplexing argument for partnering with utilities instead: spread the risk over a much larger base, feed power back to the grid at peak residential demand, and Google, the grid and the neighbors all win.
Bro built an app that won't let you fake your workouts
Bro built an app that won’t let you fake your workouts 🤯 It’s an alarm clock. To turn it off, you have to do push-ups and the app uses AI to actually verify you did them. No cheating. Jake (24) launched Early at the end of 2025. Four months later it’s doing $50K/month with 200K+ downloads.
OpenAI’s lead engineer was secretly a spy
Run GitHub Actions 2x faster and build with Codesmith at https://www.blacksmith.sh/ An OpenAI engineer built a wiretap with his wife’s ChatGPT account, hid it in toilet paper behind the executive boardroom TV, and lasted 48 hours before getting caught. Let's dive in. Want more Fireship? 🗞️ Newsletter: https://bytes.dev 🧠 Courses: https://fireship.dev
I built this app for my dad. Now it makes $18K/month
Kourosh built an app in a very crowded market... and yet still managed to grow it to over $18K/month. His secret is insanely simple: everyone else is chasing tech-savvy power users, but Kourosh built this app for a type of custer everyone is ignoring (his dad). This video is the story of how to build a successful product in a "saturated" market. *50+ AI app ideas making millions:* https://clickhubspot.com/q8ij Say hi to Kourash: https://x.com/BuildingWaves Check out Voicy: https://usevoicy.com/ 🔔 Follow the Second Channel: @StarterStoryBuild 🏁 We're hiring: starterstory.com/jobs Chapters: 0:00 - He built this for his dad! 1:09 - What's your story? 1:59 - What's the app? 3:24 - Founder background 4:14 - More AI app ideas 4:56 - Finding the idea for Voicy 5:50 - Build process 7:28 - Tech stack 8:21 - Growth story 9:51 - Unique customers 11:22 - Building in a crowded market 13:06 - Final advice 14:28 - Reflections 15:17 - FREE app ideas This video is an educational case study of this founder’s experience. It is not financial advice and does not guarantee any income or results. Every business is different and your results may vary.
We went down the diamond rabbit hole (and it’s unhinged)
*$1M Attention Guide: 15+ ways to get eyeballs on what you're building* https://clickhubspot.com/um02 Episode 871: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk about the diabolical marketing tactics that De Beers used to convince every man to spend 20% of his annual income on a diamond. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:15) A Brief History of Diamonds (8:25) The Marketing Genius of De Beers (18:15) Lab-Grown Diamonds (20:00) Shaan Goes Into the Back Room at the Jeweler (23:15) Bitcoin’s Marketing Genius (26:55) The Greatest Generation (28:10) Pronoia. Be It. — Links: • Any Human Ever - https://anyhumanever.com/ • ogilvy on advertising - https://a.co/d/0iaTZqIf — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/ Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /
The untapped business of hobbies for grown men
The untapped business of hobbies for grown men
AlphaGo Took 2 Years. AlphaZero Beat It in Hours | David Silver, Ineffable Intelligence
David Silver on what happened when his team gave up human data, and why he says LLM labs are "human-in-the-loop learning algorithms with thousands of people in the loop." #AlphaZero #AlphaGo #AI #ReinforcementLearning
You just have to get started
In 2017, Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard, the university he left in 2004 to build Facebook, to deliver the commencement address. This is his case against the single eureka moment. Source: Harvard University
Bro saw 100 competitor apps so he build his to $13k MRR anyways 👍
He saw 100 competitors already building. But they all missed one thing, so he built it anyway. Meet Max. Six months ago he had never built a mobile app. Today his lifting app, Maxed.ai, does around $14K/month. “I wasn’t naive to the fact that there were 100 other competitors already out there. But I wanted to build something I was actually about.”
How I Give Feedback
Failure is to be expected, not avoided. Failure is feedback, not judgment.
“Should I Start An AI Business?”
No one cares about what you’ve done. They care about what you can do for them.
If We Don't Agree, We Don't Move Forward
Our Cardinal Rule for Marriage & Business: If we don’t agree, we don’t do it. We never “agree to disagree.”If we don’t agree, we do not take action until we do. And if we don’t, we don’t do it. It’s simple as it is powerful.
Stop Looking for a Unicorn, Hire 3 People Instead
Reminder to founders: To remove yourself from the business, sometimes you need more then one person. Sometimes, more like five. (And that’s okay)
How an $8 wall print sells for $800
How an $8 wall print sells for $800
Every app on Earth is now open source... whether it likes it or not
Every agent needs proper tools. Apify MCP gives yours thousands of them, ready to run. Use code FIRESHIP25 for $25 in free credits: https://apify.it/4ygURHS A developer just rewrote seven Adobe apps in Rust and open-sourced them for free. Let's test them out. Want more Fireship? 🗞️ Newsletter: https://bytes.dev 🧠 Courses: https://fireship.dev
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