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E303 That Great Business Show - The Irish Startup Turning €85 Billion in Advertising Spend into Customer Rewards - Matthew Coffey, Leah Deasy

SQUID has raised €10 million, reached almost 4,000 reward locations and now wants to turn loyalty points into real spending power. €85 billion is spent every year across the UK and Ireland trying to influence where consumers spend their money. Irish loyalty company SQUID has a rather disruptive ...

Nobody Voted for the People Building AGI

Sign up to our newsletter 👉 https://absolutelyagentic.com/?modal=signupThe people making foundational decisions about the most consequential technology in history could fit around a single dinner table, and they are collectively wealthier than most nations on earth.The early promise that AI woul ...

Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?"

In 2009, Patrick and John Collison went to Startup School in Berkeley, got sushi in Potrero Hill afterward, and decided on the walk home to start Stripe. The reasoning, as Patrick remembers it, was that “we might as well because it probably won't be that hard.” It took two years to launch. Seven ...

Stripe’s $7.5 Billion AI Bet: Why It Just Bought OpenRouter

Stripe has just made one of the biggest AI acquisitions yet, buying OpenRouter for around $7.5 billion — a company that was valued at just $1.3 billion only months earlier. So what exactly is Stripe buying, and why has OpenRouter become so valuable so quickly? In this episode of the Market Make ...

Stan Druckenmiller: The Market as an Economic Predictor

Stanley Druckenmiller talks with John Collison about inflation, bear markets, and why he thinks the odds of a soft landing are remote. He explains the two historical records that have never been broken once inflation passes five percent, argues the Fed's slowness through 2021 and 2022 was enormo ...

German Chanellor refuses to resign over state election results; Leaving Cert overhaul; and free hot school meals

The German Chancellor Freidrich Merz has described state elections won by the far right AfD and the far left ⁠Die Linke, but he is refusing to resign. Housing Minister James Browne is continuing to push for a significant expansion of the Help to Buy scheme ahead of Budget 2027. The overhaul of t ...

#335 How To Make A Few Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs

What I learned from reading How To Make A Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs.  ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes ---- Come and build in-person relationships at the Founders Only conference ---- (0:01) I'm what's ca ...

#329 Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)

What I learned from reading the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger.  ---- Listen to this incredible conversation between Charlie Munger and John Collison on Invest Like The Best.  ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a ...

#276 Paul Graham’s Essays Part 2

What I learned from reading Paul Graham’s essays. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com ---- [4:01] You don't want to start a startup to do something that everyone agrees is a good idea, or there will already be other companies doing it. You hav ...

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 wh ...