Laura Little

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[Laura Little @ideaslivehere]

LAURA'S LIST WEEK 6.15
Roles in marketing, Chief of staff, operations and more
https://t.co/Th72xVKIkm

[Laura Little @ideaslivehere]

@Kyrannio The process is completely broken and hideous - if any of your friends are in marketing tell them to hit me up. I am connecting talent to opportunities.

[Laura Little @ideaslivehere]

@0xCharlota I love Linkedin , X feels to me way worse for grifters and wanna bes

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

Most people underestimate how early we are in consumer AI.

Only 10% of the global population uses ChatGPT weekly - and it’s the #1 product by a large margin.

We are still in the era where most consumer AI products are paid subscriptions. This is great in many ways - and it’s proven that among people who can pay for software, AI increases willingness to pay 10x. The $200 / month power user is real.

But…the vast majority of people actually can’t pay for software, and AI has not yet changed that. I’m excited to see what other business models emerge as consumer AI evolves (ChatGPT testing ads is one!) - and what product experiences this opens up that we haven’t seen yet.

[Laura Little @ideaslivehere]

@elonmusk It’s just so fugly

[Laura Little @ideaslivehere]

@RyanDanz Honestly would he surprised if he’s a present father tbh

[Laura Little @ideaslivehere]

@kitvolta Im 44 my husband is 60 - I met him when I was 21 - he’s still the hottest guy in the room, we are normal people, I am sane and competent. We have dogs and a teenager. Idk if I would have sought that age range out if we met when I was 27. Love hits when it hits.

[Laura Little @ideaslivehere]

@marcrandolph @pmarca This clip didn’t go down well 😭

[Laura Little @ideaslivehere]

@sternzac @VCBrags @MeekMill @jackkuveke @jabronicap Everytime I see B2b ai and Saas together

[@jason @Jason]

Can someone show Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake the uber app?

[Laura Little @ideaslivehere]

@docgotham @ivanburazin This

[Allie K. Miller @alliekmiller]

Almost 20,000 people have signed up for my free AI Agent Workshop tomorrow.

I did NOT expect this.

That number tells me something important though. There are a LOT of people out there who keep hearing about AI agents but haven't had a clear, jargon-free place to actually learn how they work.

That's exactly why I built this.

No coding required. No prior experience required. Just show up curious.

I've spent years translating AI from engineering speak to business professional speak - at IBM, at Amazon, and now for millions - and this is the session where I (hope to) bring it to the world of AI agents.

Tomorrow. March 25. 12pm ET. Free.

https://t.co/XbpoNzFjiB

If you've been waiting for the right moment to start - this is it.

[Charles Duhigg @cduhigg]

A few years ago, my wife I endowed a scholarship for book sellers hoping to write their first book. Applications for the 2026 awards - totaling $50,000 - are now open! You can apply at https://t.co/fl0i3TGEwL

[Taylor Holiday @TaylorHoliday]

Uhhh is this the beginning of the inevitable breakup between Stripe and Shopify?

This is a big deal. It’s also a bunch of my predictions coming to life at once.

Here's what's happening:

Stripe is powering a native checkout inside Facebook ads. You see an ad, tap "Buy now," and purchase without ever leaving Facebook. Powered by Stripe's new Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP)*, an open standard built with OpenAI.

This is not the breakup. It's worse. It's Stripe building the layer that makes Shopify optional.

Here's the threat chain:

1. Checkout moves off the storefront.* If customers buy inside Meta ads via Stripe, they never visit the Shopify store. The store becomes a warehouse backend, not the point of sale.

2. Stripe becomes the merchant of record infrastructure.* ACP lets any AI agent (ChatGPT, Meta, whoever) trigger a purchase. The business keeps merchant of record status, but the commerce infrastructure is Stripe, not Shopify.

3. Shopify Payments IS Stripe under the hood. Shopify's payment processing is a white-labeled Stripe integration. Stripe going direct to Meta means they're routing around their own reseller. Why let Shopify clip the ticket when Stripe can own the relationship directly?

4. The "agentic" angle is the real play. ACP isn't just Meta. OpenAI is the first AI platform to implement it. This means ChatGPT, and eventually every AI assistant, can trigger purchases through Stripe without touching a storefront. That's a future where "browse a website and add to cart" becomes a legacy behavior.

For brands specifically

This changes the ad-to-purchase funnel fundamentally. If a Prophit Engineer is optimizing Meta ads and the purchase happens inside the ad unit via Stripe checkout, the attribution model changes, the role of the landing page changes, and creative becomes even MORE important because the ad IS the store.

Brands should be watching this closely. Short-term, nothing changes. Medium-term (12-18 months), the brands that figure out how to sell inside AI surfaces and ad units via ACP will have a structural advantage.

So is it the breakup? Not yet. But it's Stripe signaling that they don't need Shopify as the distribution layer anymore. Stripe + Meta + OpenAI is a commerce stack that doesn't require a storefront. Shopify's response will tell you everything: do they build their own ACP competitor, or do they lean into being "the backend" for agentic commerce?

[Laura Little @ideaslivehere]

@Doodlegenics This is stupid

[Laura Little @ideaslivehere]

@TateTheTalisman This is stupid

[Laura Little @ideaslivehere]

@yusan_lin @mirrormirror_ai Exciting! Curious to know how the compensation stacks against the traditional fees. The good news is you still can’t put ai on the runway .. so there’s that.

[Yusan Lin @yusan_lin]

Today @mirrormirror_ai is launching the marketplace where fashion models license their likeness and brands get stunning AI-generated imagery featuring real people. Commercially licensed, model-approved.

Try our platform: https://t.co/7u72P5xvmq

As a fashion model I used to spend hours on fashion photoshoot sets. I later did my PhD in CS and became a Research Scientist on AI for fashion. I can see clearly that AI image generation is replacing a large portion of my old job. But brands that use AI recklessly have already paid the price. It damages reputations and hurts the bottom line. Putting real people at the core of AI-generated imagery isn't just about avoiding backlash. It's better business. That's what Mirror Mirror AI is built for.

Right now, Mirror Mirror AI houses agency-signed models who have graced the covers of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. You can digitally book them using our fashion-centric AI software, get your campaign done in hours instead of weeks, and never have to fly anyone in. You purchase a license for commercial use upon approval, and the models get paid.

Mirror Mirror AI is also opening a global call for independent models from anywhere in the world to apply to be featured on the platform. Work with fashion brands internationally, choose the projects you take on, and earn from your own likeness on your own terms. Selected models will be announced at an exclusive event in New York during @Techweek_ this June.

Apply for the open call: https://t.co/NutihoE9qO

A huge thank you to our incredible team for pouring their hearts into this launch, and to a16z @speedrun for believing in our vision from the start. We're just getting started.

[David Portier @davidportier]

Dear restaurant owners:

We all hate the QR code menus. Stop.

-everyone

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

Every time I post about our family getting split up on a flight I’m told I didn’t pay enough for our seats or book far enough in advance.

But this is what Macaulay Culkin just posted.

It should not be legal for airlines to split up kids and parents on the same reservation.