Hard Fork Live, Part 2: Patrick Collison of Stripe + Kathryn Zealand of Skip + Listener Questions

Hard Fork

2025/07/04

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Shownote

We’re back with part two of Hard Fork Live (see last week’s episode for part one). This week, Patrick Collison, Stripe’s chief executive, joins us onstage for a wide-ranging conversation about how Silicon Valley could unleash greater progress, from buildin...

Highlights

In this second installment of the Hard Fork Live series, hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton bring listeners into an engaging evening filled with insightful conversations, live demos, and audience interaction. The episode features high-profile tech leaders discussing big-picture ideas about progress, innovation, and the future of technology.

08:00

Stripe enables the future of internet commerce through agentic transactions.

27:11

The Mogo robot pants provide up to 40% of a healthy person's muscle force.

50:40

Bottom-up public participation is essential for AI regulation as industry self-regulation is unlikely.

Chapters

Setting the Stage: A Live Conversation About Progress

00:00

Pushing Boundaries: AI, Finance, and the Future of Medicine

08:00

Walking the Walk: Robot Pants in Action

23:34

What Lies Ahead: Ethical Dilemmas in the Age of AI

37:15

Transcript

Kevin Roose: Hard Fork Live, the podcast's inaugural event, was sponsored by premier sponsor IBM, associate sponsor Invesco QQQ, and supporting sponsor Intuit QuickBooks. Well, Casey, what was your favorite part of Hard Fork Live? I mean, there's so many t...