Stripe invited us to their MPP IRL event to speak with product leaders in agentic commerce. In this MTS Exclusive, @sophiadew sat down with Jen Lee, @backseatvc (product lead for machine payments at @stripe), Sam Ragsdale, @samrags_ (CEO of Merit Systems), and Dan Romero, @dwr (business lead at Tempo) to discuss the future of agentic commerce: Product Lead, @stripe, Jen Lee 03:29 the 1990s status code MPP runs on 05:27 why agentic commerce hasn't taken off 07:18 "stateless SaaS" 08:05 what Patreon looks like at a fraction of a cent 09:21 chaining Browserbase and PostalForm to plan a trip 10:47 a live on-chain purchase from one prompt 12:04 the new test of a good product 14:50 "probably the first 1,000 people to have ever made a machine payment" CEO of @merit_systems, Sam Ragsdale 16:40 why the internet's architecture is wrong for agents 18:07 why ads don't work on agents 19:18 the SEO slop war, agent versus agent 22:20 when your empathetic AI becomes merchant-aligned 25:43 twenty years of teaching developers that bots are bad 27:00 the slow lane and the fast lane 28:11 $60B in 2016, $300B last year 31:39 the three unsolved problems Business Lead at @tempo, Dan Romero 33:47 payments over meme coin trades 34:12 what's actually wrong with existing rails 35:50 what the Genius Act unlocked 40:14 why your card number is a password 41:13 no chargebacks 42:03 why agents adopt what consumers won't 45:44 5% of US-Mexico remittances, over WhatsApp 51:26 twelve years in crypto and the first real impact