Agents, Creators, and the Pay-Per-Use Internet
from Dry Run Hosted by Eshita Nandini + Khushi Wadhwa
Michael Blau is a former a16z crypto investor and the founder of Drip, a platform that lets agents pay creators directly for paywalled content. We talk about why micropayments failed for humans but work for agents, how the dev stack for agentic commerce works, and what the internet looks like when your agent has a budget and is buying on your behalf. We also get into why crypto creator monetization failed the first time, why podcasts are the next media type for pay-per-use, and how independent publishers are caught between AI pulling information open and paywalls pushing it closed.
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