“Agents are becoming the buyer of a lot of tools. So if you're a DevTools company today, basically in a year, your buyer has changed from a human developer to an agent developer… What we're seeing is this is happening for everything else, and financial transactions with personal agents… they're going to need APIs to be able to do that simpler and easier.”
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Walking through Y Combinator's crypto request for startups, he explains the thinking behind its agent-focused theme.
bear? Is that what we're hearing?
No, just Dragonfly was so compelling. I said, stablecoins are great, but I got to go with this fund. I got to go allocate some capital. And, but no, that was, you know, it's been a long time.
…privileges, et cetera, et cetera, but actually provide value and banks might run them. They might be licensed and things like that, but they'll provide value. And then the last part of the story is basically like, as soon as you do all this, it suddenly becomes an API. And so in that world, like what agents want is APIs. We actually just ran a make something agents want hackathon. Basically, agents are becoming the buyer of a lot of tools. So if you're a DevTools company today, basically in a year, your buyer has changed from a human developer to an agent developer and you're seeing. This is before almost anyone else. But what we're seeing is this is happening for everything else and financial transactions with like personal agents, Muse and others. We think pretty rapidly they're going to be starting to do financial transactions. That could be payments, it could be trading, and they're going to need APIs to be able to do that simpler and easier. And so…
Well, I'm excited about this category.
You know, Namio, I like the way you started that too, because I've had this thing I've been telling people for a little bit, which is like, it feels to me very much like we're in a bull run, just like not a bull run of token prices, right? And like, that's a big, so, or as I put it before, it's the…
steal that. I love that framing.