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Every startup that gets funded, every payment that clears and every new market that takes off depends on a small group of people. The Information just named them.

Our new 50 Most Influential People in Tech list names the people we think will shape the industry over the next decade. In finance and investing, that includes Stripe’s Patrick Collison, Andreessen Horowitz’s Marc Andreessen and Hyperliquid’s Jeff Yan, along with a few names you might not expect.

We didn’t take applications or listen to PR pitches. The list draws on what The Information does best: the hundreds of conversations our reporters have with sources every week. That same reporting shows you what these leaders are doing before they announce it.

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Patrick Collison’s AI customers start to look elsewhere

Stripe has ridden the AI boom, but Anthropic is now weighing how much of its own financial plumbing to build, a shift that could chip away at one of Stripe’s marquee AI relationships.

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz cash in on AI

Two big exits just turned Andreessen Horowitz’s early AI bets into a windfall, and the team behind them already knows where it’s hunting next.

A Peter Thiel-backed bank learns a crypto lesson

Erebor, the bank backed by Thiel’s Founders Fund, made crypto customers a generous offer, until savvy trading firms found a way to profit from it.

Prediction markets face a new kind of scrutiny

Shayne Coplan’s Polymarket and Tarek Mansour’s Kalshi have turned betting into a serious market, but regulators are now looking at what happens behind the scenes.

Jeff Yan’s Hyperliquid eyes America

One of crypto’s most profitable trading platforms is still off-limits to U.S. users. Yan’s team is working regulators to change that, which could put Hyperliquid up against Brian Armstrong’s Coinbase.

The people on this list rarely announce their next move. To know where they’re headed, you have to be in the conversations before the press release. That’s where The Information’s reporters are, every week.

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