{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69ab3b7c7036d739021982df/6a8a1b6a54f87b88765cc4fc?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Stripe Paid $7.5 Billion For OpenRouter. You Are Living In The Age Of Startups.","description":"<p>Stripe's reported acquisition of OpenRouter is a bet on two curves changing at once: more companies are forming, and software agents are beginning to use economic infrastructure directly.</p><p>Nate Jones explains why a reported $7.5 billion price matters, how OpenRouter's token volume reframes Moore's Law for the intelligence age, what Stripe is assembling for agent-to-agent commerce, and how founders and incumbents should respond when their old base case stops behaving normally.</p><p><br></p><h2>In This Episode</h2><ul><li>Why Stripe paid a reported premium for OpenRouter</li><li>The 11-week token-doubling curve</li><li>How coding agents rediscovered Stripe's seven-year-old CLI</li><li>The emerging agent-commerce stack</li><li>Five questions that make a company purchasable by agents</li><li>Why scale alone is not a moat</li></ul><p><br></p>","author_name":"Nate B. Jones"}