Radio interview of **54 minutes** with **Philippe Corrot**, co-founder and co-CEO of **Mirakl**, on *Les Pirates de l'IA* hosted by **Éric Hazan** (RCJ), the season-opening episode broadcast on **September 20, 2026** (volume 10), in three parts separated by musical breaks. **(A)** The career path, dated: **Keyrus** in 1997 (web agency, sold to **Progiware** in 2000), **Mayrev** in fashion accessories, then **Splitgames** — a video-game marketplace — bought by **Fnac** in 2008, whose two partners ran the marketplace for three years before founding **Mirakl** with **Adrien Nussenbaum**. **(B)** The vendor's exposure to what he calls the *"SaaSpocalypse,"* broken down into two mechanisms: **per-seat** pricing, from which Mirakl is exempt since it takes a percentage **on transactions** — *"whether it's an AI buying or a human customer, it makes no difference to us"* — and the rewriting of a piece of software by a model, which he considers unlikely in the short term because *"Mirakl isn't just lines of code"* but an infrastructure connecting nearly **100,000 sellers**. **(C)** The internal transformation, with a method starting from **deliverables** and working back up the chain, the merger of the documentation, support, and training teams, and the **OneHelp** agent: at constant headcount, customer satisfaction **×2** and support users **×10**. **(D)** The forward-looking part, where he answers *"yes"* to the question of a *job apocalypse*, treats **universal basic income** as a question worth asking, and blames French labor law and the lack of a French vision. Caveat set by the guest himself: *"what I'm telling you is true for the next six months."* Continues on the vendor side with [[bain-ai-rule-of-40-headwinds-tailwinds-saas-2026-04]].
#digital marketplace#marketplace#platform model
Philippe Corrot · cofondateur et co-CEO de Mirakl · interrogé par Éric Hazan dans *Les Pirates de l'IA* (RCJ).
Product announcement published on the **Stripe** blog on **April 29, 2026** by **Dan Hill** (Product Manager, Link Consumer Product), following on from the **Stripe Sessions 2026** keynote: the launch of **Link's wallet for agents**, built on a new building block, **Issuing for agents**. **The diagnosis fits in one sentence, and it is the most important one in the text**: *"While machine payments protocols are still gaining adoption, agents need to work with the payment options sellers and consumers use today."* → **Stripe acknowledges that machine-native payment protocols are not ready, and delivers a workaround for existing rails rather than a bet on new ones.** **The mechanism**: a consumer grants an agent access to their Link wallet via a **standard OAuth flow**; the agent then issues a *spend request* and receives either a **single-use card**, or a **Shared Payment Token** — backed by the cards and bank accounts already present in the wallet. Cardinal point: *"The agent never gets access to your raw payment credentials."* The credential is **scoped** (amount, currency, merchant) and the agent must supply the **transaction context** so the human understands what they are approving — the example given in the CLI is explicit: `amount 3500`, `merchant-name "Powdur"`, `context "Purchasing the Powdur Glow Renewal Vitamin C Serum as a gift for $35."`. **The structuring constraint is temporal, and it is owned as such**: *"Today, each request requires the person's review before the credential is shared with your agent"* — **human** approval, **transaction by transaction**, on the web or in the **new Link iOS and Android apps**. Spending limits and cases where the agent would act **without additional approval** are announced, not delivered. **The second layer is the real infrastructure product**: **Issuing for agents** opens the full set of Issuing APIs to anyone building their own agentic wallet — single-use virtual cards, fund storage, spend controls, card-level permissions, **at-authorization** antifraud controls, real-time visibility. Four use cases are cited: internal spend automation, agentic cards embedded at **fintechs**, **vertical SaaS** platforms issuing cards to SMBs under their own brand, **marketplaces** whose selling agents pay suppliers and logistics. **Distribution argument**: Link claims **more than 200 million consumers**, and the article cites **OpenClaw** as an example of a personal agent that benefits. **Two reservations worth flagging up front**: per-transaction approval is presented as a design convenience when it is actually **an admission that delegated agent authorization is not solved**; and stablecoin, *agentic tokens*, and "other payment methods" are all in the **future tense** (*"coming soon"*).
#Stripe#Link#wallet for agents
**Dan Hill** — Product Manager · **Link Consumer Product** chez Stripe. Auteur de l'annonce sur le blog Stripe · rubrique *Product*. Le rattachement au produit *Link Consumer* est significatif : l'annonce est écrite depuis le **portefeuille grand public** · pas depuis l'équipe protocole ni depuis Issuing — ce qui explique que le consentement de l'utilisateur final structure tout le texte.