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Zeitgeist — a spike by Chris Gathercole
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Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, Microsoft, Meta. All Building The Same Thing.

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  • Agentic commerce infrastructure thesis: payment authority is relocating from seller-controlled environments to buyer agents. Power is shifting from platforms that control purchase flows to agents that act on behalf of buyers.
  • Brand repositioning and fraud protection are the first casualties: when an agent makes purchase decisions, seller-controlled brand presentation and traditional fraud signals both become less effective.