Will Gaybrick
@gaybrick
President, Technology & Business at Stripe
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This is chilling to read and demonstrates the most pernicious threat of agentic cyber attacks: recursive vulnerability. It’s one thing for any of us to write insecure code—possible but preventable, and increasingly so with our robotic sidekicks—and quite another to be compromised by a dependency seven layers deep.
You relied on software that relied on software that relied on software … that relied on software that we all agreed was safe, but suddenly wasn’t.
Assuming anything about the safety of your dependencies is now complacency.
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Today we announced we're acquiring @OpenRouter.
The line between intelligence and money is blurring: tokens are increasingly a general purpose currency, and we're all navigating—often suboptimally—a new intelligence pipeline that determines product quality, cost structure, and profitability. The best model for a workflow depends on latency, price, task complexity, and myriad other trade-offs that shift every time a new model drops.
Stripe has always existed to help businesses grow by sanding friction and increasing agency related to money. Thanks to OpenRouter, as of today, that's money and tokens.
To the whole OpenRouter team, welcome to Stripe. We’re delighted to build the economic infrastructure for AI with you.
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I sat down with @davidgeorge83 @a16z to talk about all things Stripe and agentic coding as plastic injection molding in the 1940s. You'll have to let me know if the analogy works.
We went into:
- Taking a "build everything" mindset to meet this moment of immense human empowerment
- Why agentic commerce hasn’t yet had its Opus 4.5 moment
- Scaling taste
And much else besides.
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