New theme
Agentic commerce
Not on the starting list: Claude named it and a second pass merged look-alike labels into it.
- Episodes
- 7
- Share
- 0.7%
- Shows
- 7
- Net sentiment
- +0.57
Up from 0.2% of episodes in the weeks before; net sentiment was 0.00.
Bullish 4Mixed 3Neutral 0Bearish 0
3 weeks
Share of each week's episodes, and net sentiment.
0%2%4%
Sep 21Sep 28Oct 5
Net sentiment
−10+1
Sep 21Sep 28Oct 5
The episodes behind it
Why each one was bullish, bearish or in between. Most time on the theme first.
Bullish 4
- AI agents increasingly buy services autonomously, and crypto rails are positioned to power machine-to-machine payments.Why Your Business Can't Ignore Cryptocurrency with Sid Coelho-Prabhu | Coinbase · B2B Vault: The Biz To Biz Podcast · Oct 9
- Guests see agentic commerce as a tectonic shift, though consumer trust remains a barrier to adoption.1104. News: Nubank rules out Monzo takeover, Checkout.com opens the books, and Ramp hits Broadway · Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS · Oct 5
- Agents choosing infrastructure vendors could drive large growth for companies like Vercel.20VC: Cognition vs Factory: Vinod Khosla Creates a Storm | OpenAI Nears $70B Run Rate: Anthropic Under Threat | ElevenLabs Doubles Its Valuation to $22B & Salesforce Buys Listen Labs for $2B · 20VC · Oct 8
- Guest sees agentic and autonomous payments as a future opportunity, though adoption is still early.From Visa to Coinbase to Nium: Sekhar Cidambi on Payments Evolution · The Stablecoin Podcast · Oct 6
Mixed 3
- Retail AI assistants lift sales and conversion, yet trust gaps and measurement blind spots constrain the upside.#157: Will your customers name your brand to their AI shopping agent? · Likely Marketing · Oct 6
- AI assistants lift spending per order but may steer customers toward higher-margin items.Walmart and McDonalds defend dynamic pricing. · Elon Musk Podcast · Oct 5
- AI shopping agents could disrupt impulse buying, retail media and brand loyalty in grocery.Costco Keeps on Growing, Kroger’s Loyalty Driver & Morrisons Locks It Up | GrocerTalk · Omni Talk Retail · Oct 6
Around it
Companies named
- Walmart 2
- Coinbase 2
- Checkout.com1
- Amazon 1
- Zalando1
- Myntra1
Shows that covered it most
- Elon Musk Podcast1
- Fintech Insider Podcast by 11:FS1
- Likely Marketing1
- Omni Talk Retail1
- The Stablecoin Podcast1
- 20VC1
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