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"Stablecoins are like Starlink for money. Once it's in zero gravity, it's super efficient to actually move the data around and move the money around. But the ground stations on the ground have to be built." Zach Abrams, the CEO and cofounder of Bridge the leading stablecoin orchestration platform, and 🏕️ Henri Stern, CEO and cofounder of Privy, the leading crypto wallet infrastructure, sit down with John to discuss the future of stablecoins, issuing, and what it will take for crypto to become ubiquitous. YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gxuKGD8N Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gHeEDDNV Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gj5AHgTy Full transcript on Substack: https://lnkd.in/gUqzWud2

Had a great time chatting with swyx and Alessio Fanelli about all things AI at Stripe: from how we are enabling agentic commerce and building our own foundation model, to how we use AI tools internally and power the world’s fastest-growing AI companies. https://lnkd.in/gb5QQtkH

Android app developers can now accept in-app purchases for digital goods and subscriptions with Stripe. Available in the US: https://lnkd.in/gkT5Au6h.

Jony Ive on the trade-off between speed and quality when building products: “We can do both. I think there is a beauty to working efficiently and I think we can say that’s speed. I would sort of frame the issue of how can we work wonderfully, efficiently to create something with breathtaking quality.”

"The solar wave is exponential, right? People are really bad at understanding where they sit on an exponential curve and then correctly projecting into the future." Casey Handmer on Cheeky Pint discusses his solar-maximalist worldview, the plan to make synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air, why Hyperloop was doomed by physics from the start, and his plan to refill the Salton Sea. YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gEUKuJZU Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gKr47JQy Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gwicy6np Full transcript on Substack: https://lnkd.in/gjSHqQRn

62% of the Forbes AI 50 list uses Stripe Billing today. In fact, it is used by the likes of Lovable, Cursor, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, and Midjourney to run their revenue engines. This year, we’ve been again named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Recurring Billing Applications. Stripe was also positioned highest for Ability to Execute. Our position is a major milestone for Stripe Billing. With more than 300,000 global companies already on Stripe Billing, we are inspired to continue investing in delivering innovative capabilities for our users and very thankful for their trust. Read the report: https://lnkd.in/e8-bhFJm

“I pretty much only hire people who’ve never done public equity before. If I hire somebody laterally who’s a portfolio manager of another fund, that’s rarely been successful, almost never.” Seasoned public and private investor Dan Sundheim sits down with John to discuss the harrowing GameStop short squeeze, waking up at 3 AM for the European market open, and the emotional asymmetry of managing billions of dollars. They cover why he thinks successful private companies should avoid the public markets, the real genius of Elon Musk's business approach, and the pattern recognition that comes from years of investing. YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gz7yzet3 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gw6Xv5hp Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gMJdsfhB Full transcript on Substack: https://lnkd.in/g-XjrJ2b

Founders can now fundraise with Y Combinator SAFEs in the Stripe Atlas Dashboard. Founders tell us that raising capital is one of the biggest challenges of starting a company (a close second to finding product-market fit), so we set out to make fundraising easier. Atlas founders can now create, sign, and track post-money SAFEs in Atlas after signing board consent docs based on trusted Cooley LLP templates. Start fundraising: https://lnkd.in/edefWbec

Instant Checkout in ChatGPT, issue your own stablecoin, and a cheeky pint with Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke