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Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 2:03 Alex Rampell It was much more secure than a MagStripe, and basically Visa and MasterCard, um, and then the EuroPay, that's what the E is for, uh, but what is ECM for an EMV? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:03 Max Levchin One of the things that's really amazing and subtle about Apple Pay slash Google Pay and its interaction with the Visa and MasterCard networks is Visa and MasterCard have a hard two and a half second limit on interaction between the network… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:44 Alex Rampell You chart, you put 50 dollars on your Starbucks account, well, they only have to pay Visa, MasterCard, and everybody else one time, as opposed to every successive time.
“Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
- ▶ 14:40 Alex Rampell That's why Visa has a very big market cap.
Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
- ▶ 18:16 Steven Sinofsky Hopefully just a Visa debit card that you bought at CVS.
How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
- ▶ 31:47 Erik Torenberg Sort of the acquisition that didn't go through with, with Visa and sort of the ups and downs that, that you guys have had, you know, alongside the, the macro and obviously in an incredible position right now is the, talk more about the… 7 times in the scene
Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
- ▶ 53:41 Varun Krishna The visas, the MasterCards, you know, the, the Amexes.
Ben Horowitz Shares the a16z Origin Story & Plans for the Future
- ▶ 32:18 Ben Horowitz It's like literally the most transparent form of payment that there is in the world, like more than visa, more than dollars, more than anything.
Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George
- ▶ 1:39 Chris Dixon It's now in the trillions of dollars, you know, higher than Visa per month.
- ▶ 2:16 Chris Dixon You know, having a, uh, issuing bank, and a merchant bank, and visa, and a payment processor. 2 times in the scene
Mark Casey (Capital Group): Public Market and Macro Perspectives
- ▶ 16:32 Mark Casey Uh, it has so many winners, Visa and MasterCard. 2 times in the scene
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 2)
- ▶ 47:32 Vijay Pande Imagine Amazon a visa, but of healthcare.
Founding Stories: Synapse
- ▶ 36:34 Sanket Pathak You have to get the approvals from partner banks, you have to get Visa to approve their,
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 37:46 Chris Dixon It's no longer a web service that's connected to PayPal or Visa or something, and they can't take their money and screw it up or do whatever they want and make you get permission and make you get, you know, and like, and disenfranchise a…
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
- ▶ 5:20 unnamed speaker We have Visa, which can clear so many financial transactions per second.
3 Ways Startups Are Coming for Established Fintech Companies -- And What To Do About It
- ▶ 1:03 Frank Chen So, I'm a product manager at Visa or, um, or a Geico, and I am looking in my rear view mirror, and there are startups in the rear view mirror, and I'm very nervous that the startup in the rear view mirror, exactly as the mirror says,
a16z Podcast | The Evolution of Payments
- ▶ 10:12 Alex Rampell Like you're kind of the toll booth to the toll booth of Visa and MasterCard and all the other players.
- ▶ 11:32 Alex Rampell So Visa has a two hundred and fifty five billion dollar market cap. 7 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Fintech for the People
- ▶ 14:48 Matt Flannery Nigerians are not going to have Visa cards or MasterCards anytime soon, because there's nowhere to swipe them, and people can't get credit scores.
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 10:54 Alex Rampell And I think that you're not going to be, just because it takes so little time to tap, in your case, your hand, or in my case, my phone, or in Angela's case, her Visa or MasterCard,
- ▶ 44:53 Alex Rampell Um, whereas if you look at how fast is, uh, on, on Visa or MasterCard, which published their numbers or American express, how much,
a16z Podcast | Managing Uncertainty -- Layoffs and Talent
- ▶ 27:57 Alex Rampell I won't say who, but now that, you know, trial pay got acquired by Visa, I'll look at somebody's LinkedIn profile and they'll say like they were, and this, this might've been a disgruntled person. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Data Network Effects
- ▶ 4:41 Alex Rampell So go back to credit bureau, I have a lot of data, I'm Experian, therefore people write and read from me, and therefore I get more data and my data gets better, as opposed to, like, look at Visa, you know, where Visa bought my company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:36 Alex Rampell Visa's exhaust is very, very valuable, but if they shared that, then they're 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building Affirm, and Why Max Levchin Has Watched Seven Samurai 100-Plus Times
- ▶ 9:18 Max Levchin And Visa MasterCard have success, Visa MasterCard issuing banks have successfully chipped away that by issuing their own Visa Black and all that good stuff, Sapphire cards, things like that.
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 36:39 Alex Rampell Um, and, ah, I mean, the fact that Visa Europe is selling to Visa is a big, big windfall for, for UK and EU-based banks, and they kind of need that capital right now.
a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
- ▶ 16:51 Benedict Evans Um, I mean, to your point about payments, I mean, I was thinking about the Apple, the way that Apple kind of tends to build these things, um, which is actually kind of a topic for another blog post, but I thought the interesting thing here…
a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain
- ▶ 21:32 unnamed speaker So, so Bitcoin has been around for a while, and, ah, it seems as the number of transactions, the daily transactions hasn't moved that much, the, you know, it hasn't really had the uptake, ah, over the time that it's been out, and, you…
Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 13:07 Brian Armstrong Um, there's gonna be a couple of these, you know, like Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or GIF, JPEG, PNG, if you wanna use an internet analogy.
Distribution, Channel & Partnerships
- ▶ 0:08 Alex Rampell So before I joined the firm, I ran a company called TrialPay, which was acquired by Visa in 2015.
Crypto and the Evolution of Open Source
- ▶ 19:16 unnamed speaker That this universal payment system, Visa, MasterCard, that becomes this digital payment rails that could be abstracted to interact with basically any merchant.
The Oral History of TrialPay -- Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
- ▶ 28:25 Terry Angelos I mean, I, I, so just to kind of build, build on that, I mean, if you think about now what trial pay looks like inside of Visa, um, and, you know, I sort of have this view that most acquisitions,
The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech
- ▶ 27:10 Alex Rampell And lastly, I mean, there's a joke that we make, which is we love boring, and we love infrastructure, because the key learning for me, like having built TrialPay and sold it to Visa, I wish I didn't have to sell it to Visa, but they had… 2 times in the scene
What Happens When Mobile (Really) Hits the Wallet
- ▶ 17:06 Alex Rampell So PayPal, Visa Checkout, MasterCard MasterPass, um, or even, uh, MCX, which is now no more.
- ▶ 17:47 Alex Rampell It's highly unlikely that PayPal would do that or that Visa would do that or that MasterCard would do that or American Express would do that.