Tony Chen

Founder and CEO @kleepay, building programmable cards for AI agents. Previously HongShan (ex-Sequoia China).

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

We're hiring at @KleePay.

We're building payment infrastructure for AI agents and looking for AI-native builders across engineering, product, growth, operations, and internships.

You don't need 10 years of experience, but you do need to move fast, learn fast, and figure things out without being told exactly what to do.

We care more about proof of work than credentials.

Competitive base salary + meaningful equity.

DM me your GitHub, X account, portfolio, side project, or anything you've built.

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@call_me_Nithin @KleePay thanks, will check it

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

We're hiring at @KleePay.

We're building payment infrastructure for AI agents and looking for AI-native builders across engineering, product, growth, operations, and internships.

You don't need 10 years of experience, but you do need to move fast, learn fast, and figure things out without being told exactly what to do.

We care more about proof of work than credentials.

Competitive base salary + meaningful equity.

DM me your GitHub, X account, portfolio, side project, or anything you've built.

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@ihazxyz @KleePay thanks for sharing this

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@it_is_prateek @KleePay

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@KudaleAdit77859 @KleePay thanks, will check

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@0xCaptan @KleePay will check

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@WickJh007 @KleePay we dont need to trust AI itself, and tbh humans make payment mistakes every day.

the question is whether AI can operate within better controls than humans.

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

AI agents are moving from answering questions to taking actions, but the moment an agent needs to spend money, the stack breaks.

you either give it raw payment credentials, which is unsafe, or you keep a human in the loop, which breaks automation.

@KleePay exists for the third path, we are building the control layer between AI agents and real-world payments, agents should not hold card numbers, private keys, or open-ended financial authority.

they should be able to request permission to spend, within clear rules: amount, merchant, time window, card, and workflow context.

cards are the bridge.
control is the product.
agent payments are the category.

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@lukeburgis the frontier lab winner and the economic winner may not be the same company.

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@RyanOlunix bcz most founders were trained by building products, not selling them.

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@jayyeh the best pitch deck is still revenue

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@matanSF FDEs should compress the feedback loop.

not become the feedback loop.

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@StanleyEne49 @KleePay opened

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

https://t.co/yUVogvdruU

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

before hiring our next team member, our 4 ppl founding team somehow became engineers, product managers, hr, finance, marketing, sales, community and operations.

thanks, @claudeai.

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@NwakajiObo @KleePay opened

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@felixhhaas good takes

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

rolling out something interesting for AI agents @KleePay

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@pcshipp bcz there're more builders than users

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@DanielSmidstrup taste and motivation

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

every employee gets their own corporate card.

every agent should too.

[Tony Chen @tonychenAI]

@Mat_Sherman 5. Can survive 24 months with no validation