John and Patrick Collison on Stripe's Growth, Agent Commerce, and the Future of Software
In this episode, Stripe co‑founders John and Patrick Collison discuss Stripe's rapid growth—processing over $1 trillion in payments and expanding 34% year‑over‑year—and the emerging wave of "agentic commerce" powered by AI and stablecoins. They argue that future commerce will require blockchains capable of billions of transactions per second and a shift in software economics from mass‑produced products to on‑demand, bespoke experiences. The Collisons share insights from Stripe’s data showing a strong 2025 cohort of businesses that are both more numerous and higher‑performing, hinting at a possible economic inflection point in early 2026. They also explain Stripe’s incubations like Atlas and the upcoming Tempo platform, aimed at solving infrastructure bottlenecks for AI‑driven agents.
Inside River Island’s Next Chapter in Ecommerce and Personalization | RTS 2026
In this RTS 2026 interview, River Island’s Director of Technology, Delivery and Transformation, Muriel Naber, shares her unconventional career path—from hospitality to retail tech—and how it shapes her customer‑centric transformation agenda. She explains River Island’s shift from technology‑driven projects to...
Rethinking Git for the Age of Coding Agents with GitHub Cofounder Scott Chacon
In this episode, Scott Chacon—co‑founder of GitHub and CEO of GitButler—discusses how Git’s decades‑old command‑line interface, originally built for human developers, is ill‑suited for today’s AI‑driven coding agents. He explains Git’s Unix‑philosophy roots, its lack of a cohesive UI, and...
The System Behind Self-Driving: Waymo’s Dmitri Dolgov
In this episode, Waymo co‑CEO Dmitri Dolgov walks through the architecture that powers Waymo’s fully autonomous fleet, explaining how a multi‑sensor stack (LiDAR, radar, cameras) feeds a large foundation model that is refined into three specialized off‑board teachers—the driver, the...
Episode 567: Building Voice and Streaming Apps for the Enterprise with Alberto
In this episode, Alberto Gonzalez, CTO of WebRTC.Ventures, walks listeners through the fundamentals and real‑world applications of WebRTC, the open standard that powers real‑time video, audio, and streaming in apps ranging from telehealth to enterprise collaboration. He explains the protocol’s...
The Messy Truth of Your AI Strategies
In this episode, host Ryan Donovan and guest Hima Raghavan, co‑founder and head of engineering at Kumo.ai, dissect the chaotic realities of deploying AI in profit‑driven enterprises, covering issues like pipeline sprawl, shadow AI, and data governance. Hima explains how...
#354 Beyond BI: Decision Intelligence with Graphs with Jamie Hutton, CTO at Quantexa
In this episode, CTO Jamie Hutton of Quantexa explains how decision intelligence extends beyond traditional business intelligence by using graph‑based context and entity resolution to create a single, trustworthy view of people, companies, and relationships. He details how Quantexa’s platform...
Alex Blania on Proof of Human and Building World's Identity Network
In this episode, Alex Banya, co‑founder and CEO of World, explains the emerging "Proof of Human" challenge—how to verify that online interactions are truly from unique humans rather than AI bots or agents. He outlines why traditional methods like government...
What Happens When a Public Company Goes All In on AI
In this episode, a16z partner David Haper talks with Owen Jennings, Block’s executive officer, about the company’s bold decision to cut roughly 40% of its workforce and reorganize around AI‑driven small squads. Jennings explains how breakthroughs in large‑language‑model coding tools...
Prevent Agentic Identity Theft
In this episode, Stack Overflow host Ryan Donovan talks with Nancy Wang, CTO of 1Password, about the emerging security challenges of local AI agents. Wang explains how agents like ClaudeBot (now MoldBot) can access a device’s full execution context—files, terminals,...
Security, Resilience, and the Future of Mobile Infrastructure
The episode explores the massive security breach known as Salt Typhoon, which gave China access to U.S. cellular networks, and discusses how the Navy and a startup called CAPE are building a resilient, secure mobile infrastructure that can operate over...
How Stripe Built “Minions”—AI Coding Agents that Ship 1,300 PRs Weekly From Slack Reactions | Steve Kaliski (Stripe Engineer)
Stripe’s internal AI coding agents, dubbed “minions,” now produce roughly 1,300 pull requests each week with only human code‑review oversight. Engineers trigger the agents from Slack reactions, which then spin up cloud‑based development environments to write, test, and submit code...
The Missing Power Layer of Modern Warfare
In this episode, Adam Wormuth, CEO of Chariot Defense, and Army CTO Alex Miller discuss the critical "missing power layer" needed for modern, distributed electronic warfare. They explain how today’s soldiers rely on 30‑60 watts continuously, and how existing diesel...
From Projects to Value Streams: Gilbane’s CTO on Outcome-Driven IT
In this episode, Gilbane’s Chief Technology Officer Alex Gutman explains how the firm has shifted from managing isolated projects to organizing around client‑defined value streams, enabling outcome‑driven delivery. He details the CTO’s remit—cyber resilience, service enablement, and future‑focused data/AI foundations—and how...
Building a Global Engineering Team (Plus AI Agents) with Netlify
In this brief episode, the host discusses the rapid democratization of software development and how Netlify is building a global engineering team to harness this momentum, including the use of AI agents to streamline workflows. They highlight the shift away...