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Josh Sperling

@selfsovrin

Payments leader at Turo. Partner @EmilyLonetto ventures. Serial optimist - let's build a better future together.

A couple months away from being able to add “girl dad” to my bio. So stoked 😄

Was debating on hard launching this baby … but this’ll have to do 🚀

EmilyLonetto's tweet image. Was debating on hard launching this baby … but this’ll have to do 🚀


this actually captures the essence of 2025 quite well

Dictionary.com names ‘67’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

PopBase's tweet image. Dictionary.com names ‘67’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.


I'm super impressed by the work being done by @EmilyLonetto and the @Vizcom_ai team to reenvision the world of industrial design 🤯 Congrats on the Series B 🙌🏼

Excited to announce @Vizcom_ai's $27M Series B 🚀 Since joining my mind's been blown wide open, from watching massive teams go from idea to products on shelves, to watching our community reimagine the real world. I can't wait to show you what we're working on. Read more about…



Visa is betting on agentic commerce

AI-powered agents are entering the commerce ecosystem — browsing, comparing, and purchasing on behalf of real customers. Today, we’re making it easier for merchants to meet them there without having to re-write their existing commerce and payments stacks.



Josh Sperling reposted

A core design principle of @stripe Shared Payment Tokens (SPTs) is to let AI agents accept any payment method (there are 100+ popular ones available globally) and then, separately, let merchants dynamically decide their best processing method—not necessarily the same method type.

Yes, payment rail flexibility was one of the key motivations in creating SPTs.



people are against just about anything these days huh

Support for Digital ID is plummeting according to the latest polling. We are winning. We can, and we will, stop Digital ID.



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We have three cool announcements today: (1) @OpenAI is launching commerce in ChatGPT. Their new Instant Checkout is powered by @stripe. (2) We're releasing the Agentic Commerce Protocol, codeveloped by Stripe and OpenAI. (3) @stripe is launching an API for agentic payments,…


Josh Sperling reposted

Big news: I’ve joined @vizcom_ai as Head of Marketing 🎉 Over the last few years, I’ve had the privilege of working with creative communities — designers, developers, builders — and helping them bring their ideas to life. Now, I get to do that again… this time with industrial…

EmilyLonetto's tweet image. Big news: I’ve joined @vizcom_ai as Head of Marketing 🎉

Over the last few years, I’ve had the privilege of working with creative communities — designers, developers, builders — and helping them bring their ideas to life.

Now, I get to do that again… this time with industrial…

It's 2025 and somehow we're still relying on username and password for authentication. It's time to move on.


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If you're not a 2FA person we can't be friends.


It's easier than ever to moderate content with AI, meanwhile ads on X/Google/YT are full of grifts and scams. Might be time to rethink Section 230.


Josh Sperling reposted

A quick break from my regularly scheduled programming to shoutout my husband @selfsovrin and his talk at @stripe sessions 👏 Interested in how companies like @turo handle marketplace & global payments, check it out 👇 stripe.com/sessions/2025/…

stripe.com

Global Payouts: Next-generation money management at Stripe | Stripe Sessions

Global Payouts: Next-generation money management at Stripe | Stripe Sessions


Josh Sperling reposted

it's time we blew the ceiling off Webflow's limits we're launching Webflow Cloud ☁️ today. I'm excited to show you 👇

bryantchou's tweet image. it's time we blew the ceiling off Webflow's limits

we're launching Webflow Cloud ☁️ today. 

I'm excited to show you 👇

Feels like right now is the golden age for AI chatbots before sponsored ads inevitably ruin all the fun


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Recently I was targeted by an extremely sophisticated phishing attack, and I want to highlight it here. It exploits a vulnerability in Google's infrastructure, and given their refusal to fix it, we're likely to see it a lot more. Here's the email I got:

nicksdjohnson's tweet image. Recently I was targeted by an extremely sophisticated phishing attack, and I want to highlight it here. It exploits a vulnerability in Google's infrastructure, and given their refusal to fix it, we're likely to see it a lot more. Here's the email I got:

meanwhile, technological progress marches on

SOUND ON. You’re hearing the first howl of a dire wolf in over 10,000 years. Meet Romulus and Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals, born on October 1, 2024. The dire wolf has been extinct for over 10,000 years. These two wolves were brought back from extinction using…

colossal's tweet image. SOUND ON. You’re hearing the first howl of a dire wolf in over 10,000 years. Meet Romulus and Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals, born on October 1, 2024.

The dire wolf has been extinct for over 10,000 years. These two wolves were brought back from extinction using…


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Never forget, just in case:

BowTiedMara's tweet image. Never forget, just in case:

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