Leaders 💼 | 2026-03-04
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Stripe's Agentic Commerce Suite simplifies selling on AI agents by handling discovery, checkout, payments, and more, enabling businesses to easily participate in the growing agentic commerce ecosystem.
Retailers are rapidly maturing their agentic commerce initiatives, shifting from hesitation to implementation and optimization.
Stripe's financing program boosts revenue growth for SMBs by 27 percentage points on average, with the top performers seeing a 211% increase.
Kimwolf, a new IoT botnet, has infected over 2 million devices, forcing them to participate in DDoS attacks and relay malicious traffic. It spreads by compromising local networks of infected proxy endpoints.
A prolific data ransom gang, Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters, employs aggressive tactics like harassing executives to extort payment, posing a unique challenge for victims.
Stripe acquires Metronome, the industry leader in usage-based billing, to build the most flexible and complete billing solution for businesses of all sizes.
Stripe's embedded payments and finance components enable SaaS platforms to quickly add robust financial features, especially benefiting large enterprises and in-person businesses.
Stripe Atlas startups saw rapid revenue growth in 2025, with founders launching more companies and reaching customers globally faster than ever.
Thick clients were the dominant form of device throughout the PC and mobile era; in an AI world, however, thin clients make much more sense..
Shopify is poised to be one of the biggest winners from AI; it would behoove investors to actually understand the businesses they are selling..
An interview with Matthew Ball about the state of the video gaming industry in 2026, and why everything is a fight for attention..
An interview with long-time (retired) VC Bill Gurley about his new book about building a career you love, Uber, and the modern state of VC..
LLMs can now deanonymize individuals from free text with surprising accuracy, posing new privacy risks for pseudonymous users.
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