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title: The best companies start as API companies
slug: the-best-companies-start-as-api-companies
published_at: 2026-02-18 21:28:09 +0000
updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:08:29 +0000
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# The best companies start as API companies

*Published: February 18, 2026*
*Views: 780*

## Watch

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWiUMABMs9I)

[![The best companies start as API companies](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NWiUMABMs9I/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWiUMABMs9I)

## Description



## Transcript

Check out the latest post from Gummo at Verscell talking about how the best companies start out as API companies. He's talking about Scale AI and Clear Bit and Ozero. And I definitely think about uh Stripe obviously and the Collison installation as the way to increase adoption and distribution of your product. But in today's AI world, all companies are AI companies. if you're going to survive, it's software talking to software and uh agents need a way to talk to each other and so I think Stainless is super well positioned. It's makes it pretty exciting to be working on this sort of project. So, uh yeah, head over take a look at this post.

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