Michael Blau, Head of Product and CTO at Royal, the company behind Drip, joined me to discuss how the platform is helping writers and content creators get paid in stablecoins when AI agents use their work.
Get to know Michael:
- Early bird or night owl? Both
- Window seat or aisle? Aisle
- Text, Email, or call? Call
- What’s one company outside crypto that you admire? Obsidian
- If you could have dinner with any person, living or dead, who is it? Harry Houdini and Chan Canasta
- Best advice you’ve ever gotten? Always be a student, always be learning and you can learn to get lucky
Topics:
- Why use Drip for financial market research instead of just asking ChatGPT, Grok, or Gemini?
- Integration with Base and Tempo
- Michael’s time at a16z investing in crypto
- AI Agents and the future economy
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Timestamps
03:27 Michael’s background
06:04 Discovering crypto
08:29 working at a16z crypto
10:47 Crypto investing secrets
18:05 How Drip works
23:51 Stablecoin payments
6:44 Competition concerns
31:38 AI Agentic economy
41:00 Roadmap
43:50 Wrap up questions
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