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▶ 11:50 · $OPENAI · Cleo founder bearish on OpenAI becoming universal consumer interface, favors vertical AI agents
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Stripe

Barney Hussey-Yeo in conversation with John Collison

2026-06-10 · 4 company · 7 thematic
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speakers
barney hussey-yeo

Founder of Cleo, an AI financial assistant with 400M ARR and unicorn valuation, based in London. Previously funded university through online poker and worked as a data scientist in fintech.

john collison

Co-founder and president of Stripe, the financial infrastructure company that provides payments and software tools to internet businesses.

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“I think there's going to be loads of avenues like this. Imagine health, right? We all make terrible decisions for our health all the time... I'm bullish on that, and I'm less bullish on like OpenAI being the interface for everyone for ever…”
—barney hussey-yeo
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