Stripe broke the internet when they spent $1.1bn for Bridge 💸 But this was a small part of a bigger master plan 🧠 In this Exclusive @TokenizedPod Interview, President of @stripe, @gaybrick takes us behind the scenes... 🧵 Here are some of his best quotes: ✍️ - On Stablecoins “We're almost shocked by how performant stablecoins are. Who knew money could work this way?” - On the acquisition of Bridge: "Bridge is helping entrepreneurs solve problems that are otherwise completely intractable. They are antibiotics in the late 1920s - actual newly discovered lifesavers." - On the Acquisition of Privy “We think privy can really sort of be a coefficient, if not sort of an exponent, on the growth rates of stablecoin application development” - On Banks “Looking a few years out, if you're not tokenizing your balances as a bank, think you're really at risk of losing some of your deposits” - On Fragmentation in the Stablecoin Ecosystem “I’m picturing in my mind ‘Stripe sessions 2030’. Slide one, here's the 200 payment methods we accept, and slide two, here's the 200 stable coins we accept. And I think that's a word we don't want to be” *** ...