Babacar Diop

[Babacar Diop @bm_diop]

https://t.co/k5YWbDQbpq

[Babacar Diop @bm_diop]

https://t.co/QMwd3B2CWp

[a16z @a16z]

Stripe's Will Gaybrick: "Build everything"

Against an industry that sees agents as a way to cut costs, Stripe is using them to build more: agents wrote 30% of code in a week, global tax filing shipped in 1/3 the time the US version took, and after AI made sellers 20% more productive, Stripe hired even more sellers.

President of Technology & Business @gaybrick sits down with a16z's David George to cover why there's no one left for Stripe to copy, why checkout pages will disappear, how agents plus stablecoins make micropayments real, and why tokens are becoming a currency worth protecting like dollars.

00:00 Intro
01:00 From payments to 30 products
02:30 1 in 6 free trials abused
05:50 Win the startups, then win them again
09:40 Borrowing from Google, Apple, and Ford
14:30 Minions: 7K one-shot PRs a week
18:45 Building everything vs. cutting costs
26:00 Why timelines keep compressing
29:50 What replaces the checkout page
34:20 The case against $9.99 subscriptions
37:20 Stablecoins solve a political problem
41:35 Tempo, a payments-only blockchain
43:10 Tokens are money now
49:00 How Stripe scales taste

https://t.co/MW8kTxfcpq

@gaybrick @DavidGeorge83

[Jon Yongfook @yongfook]

I'm pleased to announce [REDACTED], a suite of free tools that redact sensitive data without your files ever leaving your device!

→ Face & video blur
→ PDF redactor
→ Chat anonymizer
→ and more

100% free, runs in your browser

link: https://t.co/gHpp8QdD8t

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Learn to imagine more possibilities than you generally consider. Avoid fixating only on what is present. Ponder what is absent.

[Naval @naval]

No one can fill the hole left by another human.

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

The best reason to take care of yourself today is to be there for the people you love tomorrow

[Babacar Diop @bm_diop]

This product is useless.

https://t.co/xg4kq5HdVw

[David Casem @davidcasem]

Anthropic setting up its own wet lab is the clearest signal yet: left unchecked, proprietary LLM vendors will verticalize into every high-value industry.

When you route your core IP through closed model providers, you're just paying for the R&D of your future rival.

At Telnyx, we provide open-weight inference with guaranteed Zero Data Retention (ZDR). Compute designed to scale your business, not compete with it.

[Babacar Diop @bm_diop]

I'm hosting a Grok Bot Meetup with @SpaceXAI in Abidjan on November 7.

Same energy as Café Cursor in July, but this time Grok @bot is à l'honneur.

Drop in anytime. https://t.co/nefqQa2LrK

[Babacar Diop @bm_diop]

Apps like Grok Bot and Muse completely kill the need for sales automation sw but increase the importance of CRMs.

[Startup Wisdom @StartupWisdom_]

.@jeffbezos on why founders shouldn't chase trends:

"Don't chase the hot new thing. Whatever it is, it's so hard to catch something that everybody already knows is hot. Instead, position yourself and wait for the wave to come to you — position yourself in something that captures your curiosity, something you're missionary about. When we acquire companies, I'm always trying to figure out: is this person a missionary or a mercenary? The missionary is building the product because they love the customer, because they love the product. The mercenary is building it so they can flip the company and make money. One of the great paradoxes is that the missionaries usually end up making more money than the mercenaries anyway.

So pick something you're passionate about — that's my number one piece of advice. And the second thing is, once you've done that, just start with the customer and work backwards. Those two things will take you an awfully long way."

[lomi. @lomiafrica]

Connect lomi. in seconds.

Click a button, sign in or sign up, then approve. Cursor, Claude, VS Code, or Grok Bot.

https://t.co/TF1QhY4Gjb

[Kevin A. Bryan @Afinetheorem]

On AI capabilities: the French press is all over the Haitian-Canadian novel C’était ça ou mourir. It's winning basically every award you can win, and was tipped to be the 2nd Canadian winner of the Prix Goncourt. Only one problem: 1/2

[Babacar Diop @bm_diop]

@martyamark I built one https://t.co/EjUTl9DRUL

[Babacar Diop @bm_diop]

@yongfook build a payment company.

[sandra @sandylikesfrogs]

https://t.co/2kNnRqnnvc

[Babacar Diop @bm_diop]

https://t.co/xNKpKVMpHJ

[Sarah Lezito @sarahlezito]

Another Genius idea 💡 😅