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Finance @getVGS. Dad. Prev @vertexventures @qatalystgroup @google @deloitte.
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Joined April 2011
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Simon Tiu retweeted
We are excited to announce that World Labs is joining @AMD.
The research and technical breakthroughs we have achieved since our founding in 2024 have given us a clear vision for AI’s potential to solve problems in the spatial and physical world.
Accelerating the future of spatial and physical intelligence requires scaling our efforts, scaling our reach, and getting closer to the hardware.
Simon Tiu retweeted
Instinct + Shopify
35% of our users use Instinct for personal shopping. Today, we’re partnering with @Shopify to bring product discovery, checkout and order updates into one conversation.
Shopping is a creative and personal experience. Your Instinct knows your sizes, the brands you like, and what you’ve bought, kept or returned. When you ask for something, Instinct understands the details that matter, from who a gift is for to when you need it to arrive.
Instinct can now search Shopify’s merchant network for products, and find live information on prices, sizes and availability. When you’re ready to buy, Instinct sets up your order with the store so you can check out with Shop Pay using your saved payment and shipping details.
Whether you’re searching for a thoughtful gift, researching big-ticket items, or restocking household essentials, the new experience helps you:
- Discover and compare products across brands, with up-to-date pricing and availability
- Check out with Shop Pay using your saved details
- Receive price-drop and back-in-stock notifications for your favorite items
- Stay on top of delivery updates and return-window reminders
- Access automatic discounts and promo codes tied to your Shop account
Simon Tiu retweeted
We are excited to announce we are partnering deeply with Muse to enable agentic checkout with Shop Pay on all Shopify stores, offering people an easy and delightful way to shop and check out with Muse.
Ohhhh snap, we’re back
Opening access for developers to build Muse connectors. You bring the API -- Muse brings the agent, the browser, and the context of what the person actually wants. People reach your service just by asking for it, and their agent takes it from there.
New connectors are live today. Come build with us. muse.ai/platform
Great conversation at the @GoldmanSachs Americas Financial Technology Conference, where @getVGS CEO Chuck Yu joined a panel on the future of payments and commerce. 💳🤖🚀
One line that stuck with us:
"The last 12 months were about building all the payment infrastructure for agentic commerce. Now it's about how quickly the agents can connect to it."
As AI agents start transacting on behalf of consumers and businesses, the winners won't just be the ones who built the rails. The winners will be the ones who make it fastest and safest for agents to plug in.
Thanks to Goldman Sachs for the invite and to everyone who joined the discussion. 👏
#VGS #GoldmanSachs #AgenticCommerce #Payments #Fintech #AI
Simon Tiu retweeted
the main thing i was excited about launching this week will be next week instead, but imo worth the wait!
Agree
I'm just going to call it:
The fact we now have a routing intermediation layer on AI token usage means we'll soon see a 'regular' version where you pay full price, and a subsidized version where results on commercial prompts like ecommerce/travel are skewed slightly in exchange for cheaper token costs (or have outright 'sponsored' results that display separately).
AI-enabled consumer apps with weak monetization (compared to money-gusher enterprise usage) will opt for the sponsored token pipe to float their computation costs. The third-party AI ad exchange of the future will be injecting the 'sponsored' part of the subsidized results into the token stream, combined with an attribution loop around the sponsored AI result that credits the app layer for surfacing the result.
The commercials might even be a rev-share on the downstream monetization, much like referral agreements, combined with dynamic bidding from the merchant on agentic attention (based on human user history, managed in a GDPR-safe way, in which the app owns the user data and relationship).
Trillions.
We're hiring!
@getVGS is the infrastructure that powers how the world's largest merchants, banks, and fintechs handle sensitive payment data. Right now, we have five open roles across GTM, G&A, and R&D, with remote/hybrid options available:
💰 Strategic Finance Manager
🤝 Senior Account Manager
🔗 Enterprise Account Executive
🖥️ Senior Infrastructure Engineer
⚙️ Staff Product Engineer
If you want to be part of the team building the systems that secure payments across multiple ecosystems, check out the link below and apply.
Open roles ➡️ lnkd.in/dWFURAP
#VGS #Hiring #Fintech #Engineers #Engineering #HiringEngineers #EngineerRoles
Simon Tiu retweeted
Amazing how quickly the Overton window shifted on aggressive computer use and storing credentials. Payments will be next.
Thanks for the swanky LOTR book @itsurboyevan!
1 hour to build a personal website at The Leverage Launch with @cursor_ai.
So I built a Bomberman thing where you can play against other plp visiting my website in real time. Lo-fi architecture or 2 palantiri staring at each other?
