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khalil

T3 · host / generalist

Building payment infrastructure for AI agents—wallets, balances, pay-by-phone, card collection. Raised $30M Series A led by Forerunner Ventures. Thesis: agentic payments will be monopolistic, decided in 12 months, TAM = banking + PSP + networks.

2 calls·2 names·50% bull·last heard 2 months ago·TBPN
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1sthigh conviction
$NATURALNaturalposition

Natural CEO: Agentic payments will be monopolistic, winner determined in 12 months, TAM = JPMorgan + Stripe + Visa

Agents will execute majority of global payment volume within a decade; payments' network effects create winner-take-most dynamics where the default developer choice in 2027 locks in decades of dominance, and the TAM encompasses banking, PSP, and network layers combined.

TBPN2026-07episode →
2ndmedium conviction
$STRIPEStripe

Stripe accidentally well-positioned for agents but legacy architecture limits agentic payment primitives

Stripe's developer-friendly APIs make it easy for agents to integrate, but its existing payment stack wasn't built for unified agent wallets, balances, and unlimited financial flows—creating opportunity for ground-up agentic payment infrastructure.

TBPN2026-07episode →

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$NATURAL
Natural
HIGHkhalil·TBPN·2 months ago·Kimi, Odyssey, Tyler Cowen Joins, 5 Cups of Coffee, Aston Martin x COD· position
Natural CEO: Agentic payments will be monopolistic, winner determined in 12 months, TAM = JPMorgan + Stripe + Visa
Agents will execute majority of global payment volume within a decade; payments' network effects create winner-take-most dynamics where the default developer choice in 2027 locks in decades of dominance, and the TAM encompasses banking, PSP, and network layers combined.
"agents execute a majority of global payment volume over the next decade... that world is monopolistic or dualistic in nature because payments are highly network effects driven bus…"
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$STRIPE
Stripe
MEDkhalil·TBPN·2 months ago·Kimi, Odyssey, Tyler Cowen Joins, 5 Cups of Coffee, Aston Martin x COD
Stripe accidentally well-positioned for agents but legacy architecture limits agentic payment primitives
Stripe's developer-friendly APIs make it easy for agents to integrate, but its existing payment stack wasn't built for unified agent wallets, balances, and unlimited financial flows—creating opportunity for ground-up agentic payment infrastructure.
"Agentic Payments is actually much larger than Stripe... right now if I go to Codex and I'm like go build me an app and deploy it and pay for a bunch of things, it might pull Strip…"
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Payments & Banking Infrastructuretailwind
Agentic payments will be a winner-take-most market decided in 12 months, TAM spans banking + PSP + card networks
Agents executing payments create network effects at the developer layer; the default SDK in 2027 locks in decades of volume across stored balances, pay-by-phone, card collection, and transfers—combining JPMorgan, Stripe, and Visa TAMs into one platform.