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Stripe's Internal Inflation Indicator: A New and Improved CPI? On E216, Chamath asked Patrick Collison if Stripe had ever considered publishing economic indicators based on their data from $1T+ in annual payment volume. Chamath: " One of the big things that we've talked about is how many backward revisions there are to everything from non-farm payrolls to GDP, that they've become so unreliable." "And so it's very difficult for people that are transacting in market to know what to do." "Have you guys ever thought about that? Because I'm sure that you have a much more accurate sense of where the economy is than many other people." Patrick: "We did look at inflationary data over the last couple of years, and I think you can construct, and the team did construct, a pretty reliable leading indicator for inflation." " And I feel a bit rueful with you asking that question because I feel like on some level we should have done it." "Stripe is not like a full cross-section of the economy." "We're more biased towards online, we're more biased towards innovative companies." "So the interpretation can be a bit tricky." "The second thing is the Stripe business is growing so quickly and changing so fast that again, it's not necessarily representative of the economy." "Having said that, I think in principle, you could draw some conclusions." "And so we would like to share that openly because I think it's a public good for there to be better and more reliable economic data." #inflation#cpi#data#economy#stockmarket#startups#tech#allin#allinpodcast#podcast#clips#learn#founders#entrepreneur#siliconvalleyoriginal sound
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