Sam Boboev - Why Stripe bet on AI agents and stablecoins - LinkedIn

Stripe just bet their entire future on AI agents. Not chatbots. Not copilots. Agents that take action on your behalf. Here's what that actually means for you. You bought the tool. Nobody used it. $2

Stripe just bet their entire future on AI agents. Not chatbots. Not copilots. Agents that take action on your behalf.

Here's what that actually means for you.

You bought the tool. Nobody used it. $200/month quietly dying on a credit card statement. That's not a you problem — that's what happens when AI gets sold as software instead of as a workflow change.

Stripe's insight is worth stealing. They're not building AI that answers questions. They're building AI that completes tasks — payment flows, reconciliation, compliance checks — without a human touching every step.

The difference matters for your business. A chatbot is a fancy FAQ. An agent is a team member who handles a specific job end to end. Same process. Same rules. Done automatically.

That's the lens you need. Stop asking "which AI tool should I buy?" Start asking "which single repetitive task is costing my team 3+ hours a week?" That task is your first agent candidate. No coding. No system overhaul. One process, automated.

Even Stripe — a company with hundreds of engineers — starts with one specific workflow before expanding.

You can do the same thing next week.

What's the one task your team does on repeat that you wish would just... handle itself?

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