' Hey, Linas here! Every day, I break down 3 stories shaping the future of FinTech & Artificial Intelligence - plus the money movements and trends worth tracking. First time here' 400k+ FinTech and AI leaders get this daily. Join them: A company can spend months improving a checkout page. The customer gives it a few seconds. In a recent note on agents in the economy, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison calls companies 'the original superintelligence,' able to turn their 'amortized cognitive surplus' against buyers who are inattentive and underinformed. Personal AI agents, he argues, close that gap. When they do, revenue that depends on inattention (checkout upsells, forgotten subscriptions, paid placement) shrinks, and building a better product pays more. We checked his thesis against the evidence available through mid-October: controlled experiments on how AI agents shop, retail conversion data from Adobe and Shopify, the Amazon vs. Perplexity ruling, OpenAI's ad tiers and where venture...
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