How time flies. I've been @Composio 8 months now building out our content engine and podcast: interviewing founders about what they're building. Season 3 starts soon and it'll be different. Every episode is one company, one department, filmed inside. Less "what do you think about AI," more what does it actually do here daily. I'll be asking questions like: -How much of your product is built by your own agent -What you automated and had to take back -What roles you stopped hiring for -What you'd do first at a slower company If you're a company in San Francisco (or Toronto;)) and you'd let a camera in, DM ME! Episode 1 is a works in progress right now;)

Inside @Stripe's MPP IRL: machine payments, stablecoins, and the future of agent commerce. Agents are starting to pay for things on their own: API calls, services, each other. Nobody's agreed on how that should work. This panel was three takes on it. @BackseatVC (Stripe) leads product for Machine Payments — the open standard for how agents pay for things. @dwr (@tempo) is building stablecoin payment rails, and thinks that's what agent commerce runs on, not cards. @blauyourmind (Royal) magician turned @a16z Crypto partner turned CTO is exploring programmable money for creators, and why the demand side is barely here yet. We got into: • Why HTTP 402, a status code from the early web, is suddenly the backbone of agent payments • Why Dan thinks a credit card is a private key and why stablecoins are safer for agents • Where stablecoins actually win first • Whether you should build for agent payments now or wait • Why the demand side is "virtually nonexistent" and what that means if you're building 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Event Kickoff JEN LEE — Product Lead, Stripe (00:44) What the Machine Payments Protocol Is (01:28) How MPP Works — the HTTP 402 Payment Challenge (03:25) Adoption So Far: ~30,000 Transactions (04:04) Building Trust — Shared Tokens & the Link Agent Wallet (05:56) What the Creator Economy Looks Like When the Audience Is Agents (07:15) What She Was Certain About at 22 That's Now Wrong DAN ROMERO — GTM, Tempo (08:34) Meet Dan (08:49) Why Stablecoins, and the Genius Act Tailwind (09:48) "A Credit Card Is Basically a Private Key" (11:19) Should Every Company Be Thinking About MPP? (13:03) What to Be Wary Of (15:15) Where Stablecoins Win — Payouts, Remittances, DoorDash MICHAEL BLAU — CTO, Royal (16:36) Meet Michael (17:13) From Magician to a16z Crypto to CTO (17:57) Team Over Idea — His a16z Takeaway (18:26) "The Demand Side Is Virtually Nonexistent" (19:03) Closing

We snuck into @Ycombinator Startup School to ask the world's most technical young founders one controversial question: Graphs or Loops?

Adil moved to San Francisco and caught @sama on the street within 48 hours. He asked him the funniest thing he'd seen someone do with @ChatGPTapp. The video hit half a million views. Half the comments were "how did you do that." The other half were "why'd you ask such a stupid question." That's kind of the whole point of what he's building. Before SF, @Adilmania was the "TikTok startup guy" in France. Millions of views, celebrity interviews, the French Shark Tank on TikTok. Then he quit at the top in 2023, because everything looked perfect from the outside and something was wrong on the inside. He took a break, and came back with something more global. Now he runs @siliconmania, and the mission is simple: MAKE TECH FUN AGAIN. His read is that tech markets itself terribly: people are scared of Waymos and suspicious of AI not because the products are bad, but because nobody tells the story well."It's a marketing problem, not a product problem." His advice for anyone who wants to build what he's building: There's space. Hollywood has thousands of studios. Tech has maybe five people making it fun. We need hundreds. Don't come to SF to start. Start anywhere. Come here to make it big. 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Intro (01:30) The Buzzer & Silicon Mania's Latest Drop (04:00) The TikTok Startup Guy in France (07:00) Why He Quit at the Top in 2023 (10:00) Build Space, Farza & the Road to SF (13:00) Interviewing Arnault, Macron & Getting Punched by a Bodyguard (17:00) How to Approach Anyone for an Interview (20:00) Catching Sam Altman 48 Hours Off the Plane (24:00) "Make Tech Fun Again" & Use the Waymos (28:00) The City Should Be a City, Not a Hotel (32:00) How He Makes the Recaps (Nano Banana + Grok) (36:00) Why Companies Should Reach Out to Creators (40:00) A67Z Company, the Netflix Method & Building for the GOATs (44:00) Deadlines Over Perfection (48:00) $40K a Month & the Trap of Chasing Money (52:00) Be Alone (Not Lonely) (56:00) Be Yourself — There's Only One You This is a @Composio "Agents at Work" podcast, where I chat with founders building the next leap of AI. Follow for more :)

"Any engineer who tells you Claude Fable can't replace them has a huge ego. As the models get better, designers will be able to produce more for customers without ever going to the engineering department to justify what they want to build." This is what @felixleezd (founder of @ADPList) is doing with @claudeai Fable while it's still free on paid plans: •Telling it to replicate its own harness so it runs at the same efficiency even after it moves to API-only •Running security audits across the entire codebase •Ultra reviews: scanning the full repo and database for inefficiencies costing money he didn't know about •One-shotting new features Full conversation dropping soon on @Composio Agents at Work Podcast! Access extended through July 12, use it while it's free.

She quit $10K/month, left her 32,000-person community in Korea, and moved to San Francisco to build a startup... "You have to be delusional enough to think it will work, but extremely objective about the data." Cailyn Yong (@cailynyongyong) built @getyourmomo in public since day one: every pivot, every burnout, every co-founder breakup, documented for thousands to watch. She wasn't just building a product, she was building trust at scale and turning it into distribution. We sat down at @fdotinc, the place that changed everything for her, to talk about AI memory, building in public, and why the hardest part of founding had nothing to do with the product. Since our convo, Cailyn is now embarking on a new journey. Follow her to see what she's up to next👀 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Intro (02:00) Leaving $10K/Month to Go All In on Momo (06:00) Getting Into Founders Inc. (From an ER in Vietnam) (09:30) "Get the F*** Off Localhost" (14:00) The Startup Graveyard: Eddie & CtrlX (17:00) Five Co-Founder Trials & What Trust Means (26:00) What Burnout Really Feels Like (33:00) People Relationships Are the Hardest Part of Founding (40:00) Delusional Enough to Think It'll Work (46:00) Building in Public: Dying Trend or Strongest Moat? (51:00) Three Memory Architecture Experiments (58:00) The OpenClaw Plugin & How Composio Fits In (01:05:00) Going Viral on X & Getting Her First Paying Client (01:11:00) Film School Dreams & The Billion-Dollar Vision This is a @Composio "Agents at Work" podcast, where I chat with founders building the next leap of AI. Follow for more :)