Diana 🐸

@RibbitCapital called this EXACTLY 16 months ago. Their January 2024 Identity Letter reads like a blueprint for everything Visa announced at #VisaProductDrop in May 2025. While everyone was still thinking about identity as a compliance headache, Ribbit was already mapping out how AI agents would need payment rails, how identity would become the infrastructure layer for contextual finance, and how real-time commerce would demand seamless credential switching. The letter literally predicted "AI agents that know your personal goals and can move your money accordingly" and "the act of verifying identity becomes a service that institutions can offer and monetize." Fast forward to Visa's May announcements: AI agents getting payment tools, digital identity becoming revenue-generating infrastructure, flex credentials enabling seamless funding switches, and stablecoin settlement going mainstream. This isn't just good forecasting - it's understanding that identity was always going to be the missing piece between traditional finance and the programmable money future. Ribbit saw that the "Digital Identity Frankenstein" had to evolve into something elegant before AI could truly handle our finances. The most telling part? They wrote about turning identity "from a cost center to a revenue opportunity" while banks were still spending $500M+ annually just on compliance. Now Visa literally packaged identity services as products. Reading this letter knowing what Visa shipped feels like finding someone's detailed roadmap to the future. The infrastructure thesis was spot on. Makes me wonder what other predictions from @RibbitCapital playbook are about to materialize next.

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