Stripe

Solo founding is at an all-time high. Top-decile solo founders earned 61x the revenue of median founders in their first six months. Four years ago, that multiplier was 34x. We spoke with Marc Lou, Pauline Clavelloux, and Fatima Rizwan about drivers behind the outperformance. Read more: https://lnkd.in/egWBtTtY.

Stripe Atlas now forms a new company every 12 minutes. (This is one of those down is good charts.)

Across the Stripe network, over 1 in 6 sign-ups at AI companies are linked to multi-account abuse. These patterns have been nearly impossible to catch. Until now. Last month at Sessions, we shared the biggest expansion we've ever made to Radar, helping you protect more of your business. You can now: • Protect more transactions with global payment coverage, new multiprocessor signals, and custom fraud models • Defend against new types of fraud, such as multi-account abuse, pay-as-you-go abuse, and fraudulent bot payments • Protect your platform from account fraud • Fight disputes more effectively with smarter evidence and automated evidence libraries Read our new blog post: https://lnkd.in/grisFxWr.

Starting today, you can set up machine payments with a single prompt to your agent. Get started: https://lnkd.in/dp6PJWPf.

Nat Friedman on temperature probing teams through production iteration loops at GitHub. Watch the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/eqfNkC7k.

Yasser Elsaid on growing Chatbase from ramen profitability to $10M ARR.

Evan Spiegel on how Snapchat broke the model of social media by prioritizing your inner circle over network size: “What Snapchat proved was actually that it’s not about the size of your network or the number of people you can contact on your network. It’s about who you actually talk to. That tends to be a much smaller group than the total size of the potential network, or even your total number of friends. That broke the model of social media, which was the more friends you have, the more engaged you have, the more value there is. I think people spend most of their time talking to the folks who are most important to them. If we design a service that’s all about talking to the people who are most important to you, your close friends, and we design a service that’s really, really great at that.” YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g3-B8JXZ Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g72cUfQs Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gFYwFPyV Full transcript on Substack: https://lnkd.in/gfMaGTTc

A massive thank you to Patrick Collison and John Collison for hosting me for their fireside chat to share the Speechify story at Stripe all-hands. What's always resonated with me about Patrick and John is how customer obsessed they've been since Day 1. There's the famous story of how during Y Combinator they would ask fellow founders to pull out their laptops and set up Stripe for payments right there on the spot. As they've grown to now thousands of teammates and millions of customers, that customer obsession remains. They're still hungry to know what can be improved. They invite customers to tell them what they need to work in front of the whole company. It's no surprise that in the AI era, they've remained the leader, helping support token-based business models that AI companies need to serve customers. As Speechify has evolved to serve professionals and companies in 200+ countries, paying with a wide set of currencies, Stripe has also made our global expansion as smooth as possible. We're lucky to have grown up with Stripe, to have expanded with Stripe, and to have entered the AI & now agent era with Stripe. Congrats Patrick, John, Jay Shah, Maia Josebachvili, and team for powering a staggering 1.6% of Global GDP. We're forever grateful. – Written with Speechify Voice Typing

Today, we're proud to announce that Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments by Amazon Web Services (AWS) is integrating Privy wallets. AI agents are starting to transact, not just reason and act. That shift requires payments to be built directly into how they operate. By combining AgentCore payments with Privy's embedded wallet infrastructure, this helps developers connect to their wallets for their agents, fund them (including via Stripe onramp), and define how they can spend—all within the same environment where agents are built and run. This helps developers to develop agentic payment solutions to pay for APIs, data, and services as part of their execution, without custom billing integrations or workflow interruptions. This builds on our work with agent wallets, including delegated signing—giving developers the tools to safely put money in motion for autonomous systems. Together with the Stripe Partner Ecosystem, we're excited to work with AWS to help define how payments integrate into the agent stack. Learn more 👉 https://lnkd.in/ePVrm6C8