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John Collison, Stripe: AI Agents Will Rewire the Internet

John Collison, Co-Founder of Stripe, on how AI agents are changing commerce, payments and the internet itself. I sat down with John at Browserbase Navigate to talk agentic commerce, computer use, cybersecurity and why Stripe considers 2026 the beginning of the “singularity epoch.” We get into why computer use could be the next major leap in AI, how agents…

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• ▶ How Much Payment Volume Did Stripe Process in 2025? at 0:18 Share Transcript
• ▶ How Does John Collison Think Agents Will Change Online Commerce? at 2:12 Share Transcript
• ▶ Why Does Artificial Intelligence Lead to More Cybersecurity Breaches Over the Next Five Years Than the Past Five Years? at 4:40 Share Transcript
• ▶ Why Does Stripe Refer to January 1 2026 as Day One of the Singularity? at 6:58 Share Transcript
• ▶ Why Do Developers No Longer Integrate Stripe by Hand? at 9:59 Share Transcript
• ▶ Why Did Stripe Buy Bridge and Privy? at 11:43 Share Transcript
• ▶ Why Will John Collison Not Say What Share of Stripe Volume Comes From Artificial Intelligence? at 14:13 Share Transcript
• ▶ When Does John Collison Buy a New Skill Instead of Building It Inside Stripe? at 16:07 Share Transcript
• ▶ What Is John Collison's Biggest Lesson From Seventeen Years Building Stripe? at 24:46 Share Transcript
• ▶ How Does Stripe Avoid Going Adrift in Product Development? at 27:09 Share Transcript

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