kate royers

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Described Shopify's evolution into financial services (Balance, Capital), stablecoin collaboration with Stripe, Tempo validator plans, billions-of-products catalog for agent discovery, and co-founding Universal Commerce Protocol with Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce.

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Shopify Chief of Staff: Billions of products in catalog, becoming Tempo validator, UCP co-founder

Shopify is evolving from SaaS to a global financial institution (Shopify Balance, Capital) and positioning its structured product catalog as the discovery layer for agentic commerce; becoming a Tempo validator and co-founding UCP gives it infrastructure ownership in the agent economy.

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MEDkate royers·Stripe·3 months ago
Shopify Chief of Staff: Billions of products in catalog, becoming Tempo validator, UCP co-founder
Shopify is evolving from SaaS to a global financial institution (Shopify Balance, Capital) and positioning its structured product catalog as the discovery layer for agentic commerce; becoming a Tempo validator and co-founding UCP gives it infrastructure ownership in the agent economy.
"The catalog API will give you access to millions of shops and billions of products... we will be becoming a validator node on the Tempo network... when we first started UCP with G…"
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