Jeff Weinstein is a product lead at Stripe, where he helped grow their payment APIs to hundreds of billions in volume and transformed the way founders start companies into a few simple clicks with Atlas. Prior to Stripe, Jeff led several startups and sold…

Predictions for the future of software engineering:

Vertical software is a great category to build and invest in. But the label and strategies behind it are quickly becoming irrelevant. The opportunity to build vertically focused companies is larger than ever, but the winners and their strategies won’t look…

You are what you eat: how to improve your product and design taste In a data-driven world, taste is one of the few qualities that manages to elude commodification. It’s also one of the most crucial assets that designers, developers, founders, and creators…

In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.

I recently got asked to explain execution velocity in the early stages of startup building, so I’m sharing the rough framework I use to assess founders as a pre-seed/seed investor.

Studying Yourself In the world of investing, there are two areas of study. The first world is outward-facing—the study of what makes a good investment opportunity, a good business, fundamentals, frameworks, etc. This is where most people spend all of their…

The true state of the global financial system, in ten charts.

How AI Could Transform the World for the Better

AI agents could revolutionize banking and payments. Discover the potential, challenges, and the necessary infrastructure and governance for secure AI payments.

Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no steering wheel or pedals, and an autonomous humanoid robot, called Optimus2, that can walk and has fully functioning hands and feet. Both of these...

Plastic is in your car, your kitchen, the chair you’re sitting on right now. And just as our most ubiquitous material transformed the world in a matter of decades, AI is doing the same.

Is the rate of adoption of new things getting faster and faster and if so, is this an exogenous feature of technology? I argue the rate of adoption is cyclical and, while fast today for some produc…

After college, my wife (who was then my girlfriend) and I got an apartment in the Seattle suburbs.

Stablecoins are becoming the digital currency used to reshape global finance and commerce as we know it.

About a year ago, we at Affirm decided to add an OKR to our annual planning titled “High-Performance Culture”, to help shore up the necessary means (for the necessary means) of improving our...