Tanay Jaeel

Some weird mesh of product and policy. Currently at Google DeepMind, previously at Stripe, BKCHarvard, Schwarzman Scholars. Views are my own.

[Tanay Jaeel @TanayJaeel]

Been thinking about what is driving so much energy in #fintech right now. I think a big contributor is the fact that *every* level of the system is being questioned/disrupted 🧵

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

Physicist 120 years ago: Maybe the inside of an atom is like plum pudding.

Physicist today: Light doesn’t experience time. All this shit might not even be real.

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

A controversial take - but I think the software world hasn’t priced in the fact that PMs are uniquely suited to thrive in this new world.

Especially one where the gap between idea and execution has shrunk SO much..

Good PMs are

> constantly thinking of new ideas

> spending time articulately building plans (exceptionally important for long horizon tasks)

> rapid context switching

> good sense of outcomes (vs feedback) and selling price of work

> talking to customers and able to convert into skills (yes Claude skills)

These folks were always hamstrung by the pace of development and now have been set free.

Even the “project management” skills that a lot of PMs end up learning at large companies will be helpful in managing a fleet of agents.

Now let’s be clear the PMs who are just doing coordination and none of the other things mentioned above were always destined to die a slow death in organizations.

But I won’t be surprised if a lot of the really good PMs end up starting companies while it’ll be interesting to see what the role eventually evolves to in ~five years within organizations.

[Tanay Jaeel @TanayJaeel]

How long until AmEx or Chase start giving one of the AI subscriptions for free with the Platinum or Reserve, and which subscription will it be

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

The @stripe product keynote just finished!

We announced a lot of new stuff. (We actually couldn't fit everything into the keynote.) Some highlights:

• We've built and deployed the first general-purpose Payments Foundation Model. Trained on tens of billions of transactions and already leading to very large fraud reductions.
• We announced Stablecoin Financial Accounts. Businesses in 101(!) more countries can now store stablecoin balances in Stripe and use our regular fiat money movement rails around the world. The magic of stablecoins comes when they're integrated with the rest of the financial ecosystem. I think it's the biggest international launch we'll ever do -- businesses from 151 countries can now use Stripe.
• Stripe Profiles: your public identity on the Stripe network. Stripe Profiles will let you streamline invoicing and payments with other businesses on Stripe. (We’ll soon launch reservations for Stripe Profiles.)
• Stripe Verified, a new service that will help you navigate global requirements for payment processing with personalized monitoring, enhanced protections, and expert assistance.
• We're adding multicurrency support to Stripe accounts: instead of converting all balances to a single currency, we're going to make it easy to store, convert, and operate across different currencies. We want to make it possible to use Stripe as your financial home.
• Stripe Orchestration: manage multiple payment processors directly within Stripe.
• Support for many new payment methods. You can now access more than 125 global payment methods on Stripe, including stablecoins and real-time payment schemes like Pix and UPI.
• We’ve upgraded the AI models built into Optimized Checkout Suite and now use more than 100 signals to personalize the checkout in real time. A/B tests indicate that Optimized Checkout Suite increases revenue by 11.9% on average.
• Managed Payments: merchant of record is coming to Stripe! Enter new markets while we take care of global taxes, fraud prevention, dispute management, fulfillment, and more.
• A new Connect dashboard, with vastly improved visibility into what's happening across your platform.
• Radar for Connect: it’s now way easier to detect and manage fraud and compliance issues with subaccounts.
• Networked onboarding for platforms: users no longer need to re-enter their details if they’ve onboarded before.
• Smart Disputes: AI automatically responds to disputes for you. Early results show that companies win 13% more chargebacks. We also put skin in the game: we cover the fee if you lose.
• Radar now supports ACH and SEPA. This reduces fraud rates by 20% and 42% respectively.
• A bunch of usage-based billing improvements. It can now ingest up to 100,000 events every second.
• Stripe Terminal can now be used with third-party hardware, starting with Verifone.
• Klarna is coming to Link.
• Authorization Boost. AI automatically updates cards and tokens, determines optimal transaction routing across networks, and determines if and how to retry failed payments (if we’re confident that the failure was ephemeral).
• Radar risk scores are now available via the API. (I.e. they can become a feature for in-house fraud systems.)
• Stripe Tax is now available in 102 countries (up from 57 last year), and we also now automate the entire tax lifecycle (monitoring, registration, collection, filing).
• New FX Quotes API.
• Payment method sharing: if you have multiple Stripe accounts, you can now share payment details across them, saving the need to have customers re-enter their details.
• Stripe Issuing now supports consumer card programs. (Long-requested!)
• Global Payouts: pay customers, contractors, and other third parties with just an email address.
• Stripe Workflows: build, test, and execute multistep flows that orchestrate behavior across Stripe multiple products—using your data, Stripe APIs, and conditional logic.
• Stripe Scripts: a new way to extend and customize the logic in Stripe Billing. This will soon expand to cover many parts of the Stripe platform.
• Benchmarking: compare your performance to similar businesses on Stripe.
• You can now import third-party data into Stripe Capital, which enables expanded eligibility for your customers.
• A new Issuing rules engine: granular configurability over authorization decisions.
• Global Issuing via stablecoins: a simple and cohesive way to administer global card programs. Ramp is using this to massively accelerate their global expansion.
• Data in Sigma is now far faster (6 hour latency, down from 24 hours). That'll continue to get faster in the coming months. Similar data freshness improvements across other products.
• You can now use Instant Payouts to withdraw funds from Stripe to debit cards in 32 countries.
• The Dashboard AI agent: create products, process refunds, and generate payment links by just telling our little critter what to do.

Whew! I’m not sure I even covered everything. A few of the above are years in the works and could have received launch events by themselves. I’m very proud of the team. So what are the common themes?

• We’re rethinking and upgrading pretty much every part of the stack with AI. (Embedding/foundation models, agents, etc.)
• Stablecoins are enabling unprecedented global access and expansion.
• We’re making a lot of things deeply configurable that weren’t previously. (Scripts, Workflows, and more.) Ties to our goal of building truly programmable, global financial services.

[Jeff Weinstein @jeff_weinstein]

Agentic commerce is...actually...starting... You can now buy [coffee beans] via an AI agent using @stripe.

1/ Find [coffee] with AI
2/ Buy in 1-click with Link
3/ Agent gets one-time virtual card
4/ Agent purchases via @browserbase

☕ Watch this video (built by @EvanFenster)

[Tanay Jaeel @TanayJaeel]

Update: it’s 2025 and my feelings are unchanged 😭

[Tanay Jaeel @TanayJaeel]

It’s 2022 and Trader Joe’s still doesn’t deliver 😭

[Tanay Jaeel @TanayJaeel]

@sparshmehta19 @Loganullyott @AleResnik @daniellewis @Yoroomie Congratulations man!!!

[Tanay Jaeel @TanayJaeel]

Can we either always use QWERTY keyboards or never use QWERTY keyboards. Plz pick one

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

This one was written straight from the heart at 4:32 am..

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Quantum mechanics

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Thomas Jefferson's handwritten draft of our Declaration of Independence (with revisions by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin), 1776:

[Stripe @stripe]

Updates for Connect platforms announced at Stripe Sessions:

Embedded components
Use 17 pre-built components to add onboarding, payment method settings, and tax directly to your platform—with your brand.

Faster access to Stripe Capital
Complete onboarding from the Dashboard and provide loans to your users in days.

Pricing tools
Adjust your pricing with conditional logic. Modify your fees based on payment method or country—with no code.

[Tanay Jaeel @TanayJaeel]

@manosaie Moonwalking with Einstein. One of my all time favorite books!

[Tanay Jaeel @TanayJaeel]

I feel like the future of Gen AI and streaming services will be this awesome experience where instead of browsing content, you describe what you’d like to watch (“1 hour political drama about The Cuban Missile Crisis”) and an episode/movie is generated for you

[Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸 @GaryWinslett]

There's a certain kind of person who's perpetually unimpressed. I'm kinda the opposite. To me, the world is wide and wild and wonderful and I want to see as much of it as I can. I never stop getting little joys out of all these things global society has to offer.

[Saurabh Rane @SaurabhOnTap]

🚨NBA Player Matchups🚨

Got a new tool to help analyze defensive playoff matchups!

You can use it to generate the attached plots that answer questions like:

• How'd the Celtics guard Trae & Murray?
• How'd the Warriors use Wiggins on defense in G2?

https://t.co/HbdPRSDwaw

[Tanay Jaipuria @tanayj]

With Outlook and GMail adding both email generation and summarisation, this is what email will look like soon.

(graphic by @multikev)

[Girish Pspk🐆🚩 @pspk_girish]

@RRRMovie Congrats Entire #RRRMovie Team
#Oscars

[Tanay Jaeel @TanayJaeel]

@simonfl The day they removed the scaffolding I didn’t recognize my building at all and got lost on my way home

[Tanay Jaeel @TanayJaeel]

So exciting to see @RohanPunamia launch!! Check out Bluebirds to see your sales pipeline skyrocket📈

[Rohan Punamia @RohanPunamia]

Excited to share that Kunal and I have been building Bluebirds! The response from customers has been amazing and we’re stoked for the journey ahead! If you’re in sales and need more pipeline, check us out :)