The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026

**Jason** (0:00)
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I think most of us agree, going into 2026, stable coins and AI, crypto having a huge resurgence, and we were lucky enough to get two of my friends, Brian Armstrong from Coinbase and Jeremy Allaire, who's the CEO and co-founder of Circle. We've known each other for 30 years.

**Jeremy Allaire** (1:07)
Yeah, that's amazing.

**Jason** (1:08)
What a long, strange trip it's been.

**Jeremy Allaire** (1:09)
I know. It's great to be with you again.

**Jason** (1:11)
Yeah. And this is not your first time at Davos. You've been here a couple of times.

**Jeremy Allaire** (1:15)
Yeah. I started coming with my last company, Brightcove, back in 2008-2009. And a very different time, both for WEF. It was a different time in the world. There was a great financial crisis breaking out everywhere.
And that was an interesting backdrop and also notable. I always reference that same week was when the first block of the Bitcoin blockchain was minted with the Chancellor on the brink bailout kind of embedded in the blockchain.

**Jason** (1:46)
Yeah, it's fascinating. I think it's Game of Thrones. Chaos is the ladder.

**Jeremy Allaire** (1:49)
Chaos is the ladder.

**Jason** (1:50)
Yeah. And for guys like us who've been through this, I guess, three times now. We went through it in the.com.

**Jeremy Allaire** (1:57)
Yeah.

**Jason** (1:58)
Boom. I think we're too young to have... You remember obviously that Black Friday in 87, but we were in college.
And so we had our.com, great financial crisis, and then we had COVID.

**Jeremy Allaire** (2:11)
COVID.

**Jason** (2:12)
Yeah, which was also pretty spicy. That was a great disruptive. But when you have those moments happen, I'm guessing for you and many of the founders I talked to, you just think this is the time to build.

**Jeremy Allaire** (2:26)
Yeah, totally. I mean, constraints have a huge impact on what an entrepreneur does. And even in the history of Circle, we've had extraordinary up and down, some of which are endogenous shocks, exogenous shocks, all of this. And back to that 2009, that year, actually, I got my company profitable, Freikove, and then not long after, it went public. And so we deal with what we're dealt with constraints, yeah.

**Jason** (2:53)
Yeah, constraint makes for great art is, I think, the old expression. So let's talk about your journey with Circle. Stablecoins obviously are top of mind because we had the Genius Act, my bestie, David Sacks, who's our crypto and AI czar for America, who's here with me at Davos, or I should say I'm here with him. He invited me to come. This technology is important. Why?

**Jeremy Allaire** (3:19)
I mean, look, when I got started working on this almost 13 years ago, Bitcoin had emerged. And it was from my perspective as an internet technologist, I was thinking about, wow, this seems like a new infrastructure layer for the internet. Like a missing infrastructure layer of the internet. The internet had ways to represent in data, media, audio, video, software. But there was no notion of money on the internet. And there was no protocol for money on the internet. And it was very clear at the time that that was going to happen. And when we started, I wasn't convinced that everyone in the world is just going to use a new commodity money like Bitcoin. My view is that we needed a bridge. We needed to connect the existing fiat system to crypto and to these new networks and build what we called an HTTP for dollars on the internet. And that was the idea. And eventually that's called stablecoins. Early on, we talked about we're building fiat digital currency or fiat tokens or all this. But stablecoins stuck. But the basic idea is we now have a general purpose, general architecture form of money on the internet, digital dollars that can move just like everything else and can transact peer to peer, which is super, super powerful and provides a huge amount of value to people. And really importantly, because of the technology of blockchains, we actually have programmable money.