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“In 10 years, every public company will need to do some level of carbon accounting and have a decarbonization plan to underscore that.”

“People are increasingly thinking about agents that are persistent, that feel like teammates, that feel like coworkers. Where you can work with them the way I might work with someone on my team, which is they do a whole bunch of work. I provide input and then t…”

“When Stripe got larger and larger, the question became not only why now, but like, what's the opportunity on the table for this idea? Like, this has to be an idea where we could eventually work it out to Patrick's, you know, sort of bar was, is this gonna add,…”

“So much of what OpenAI does immediately becomes something that users can touch and feel in the product. And that cycle is faster than anywhere else I've seen.”

“I do think that increasingly the future of work will look more like steering than rowing in the sense that there will be agents that you'll, you'll be able to work with that do a lot of the rowing and your role increasingly becomes steering the ship in the rig…”

“And actually with the Codex app the team who initially got it up and running and we're working on it we're super, again, user focused, tight iteration loop, really dog food at the thing, like mainline to the app as much as possible to get get everything right …”

“Actually like Stripe was very, very much this way where there are no boundaries around what a engineer could do versus a product manager could do versus a designer could do. Everyone could do anything.”

“They have a secret tool called reticle where they have a map of, you know, everyone in that they've interacted with and the 10 best people that those people have interacted with that helps them be so, so effective at this.”

“In work mode, that's where under the covers, this is codex. We've removed some of like the coding UI, like you don't, you're not going to see a work tree pop up all of a sudden in, in work mode, but it is the same power to get things done”

“Ari leads a lot of our computer use stuff at OpenAI and he's like shipped a whole bunch of great Things for computer use”

“Even more transformatively, go try it on mobile, then take like a long subway ride or something like that, or a muni ride. And when you pop out after having no service, the thing is done for you. That's the part that feels super duper magical. You're not like …”

“And then we had started exploring this thing called Connect where Amber Feng and Christina Cordova had built an initial version of this, like, multi-party payments idea that Someone like Shopify or someone like Lyft could be able to route payments in multiple …”

“Core payments maybe took 75% of the engineering bandwidth.”

“It was actually over the course of A couple years where the decision-making power sort of shifted in our existing user base to more of a finance buyer.”

“The engine that powers Stripe is payments. It is payments. It's always gonna be payments. Like, payments is really, really vital, and Stripe should not have, and did not, like, overreach into multi-product before payments was, like, really, really, really work…”

“A lot of the PMs that we've hired to do that type of work are ex-founders, and that was true of Stripe as well.”