We asked 200 EU startups running on Stripes for their views on EU tech and how legislation impacts them. While they’re bullish on what Europe has to offer, unnecessary regulatory friction is increasingly straining stretched resources. More here: stripe.com/guides/europea…

It should be much easier to start and scale an online business across Europe. We spoke to 200 startups on @Stripe to better understand the realities they’re facing and the policy challenges holding them back. Here’s what we found 👇stripe.com/guides/europea… 1/6

🇪🇺For startups regulations tend to be a nuisance they have to comply with, rather than an area they’d like to engage in more actively. Only 12% of European startups think policymakers understand the realities they’re facing; 61% don't do any lobbying. sifted.eu/articles/start…

If you're still working on your Y Combinator application (the deadline's Monday), Patrick McKenzie and I are hosting live office hours this Sunday to share some advice: youtu.be/xzAPsnv0DJs. We'll pick a few applications to review live. Share yours with us: forms.gle/qLNdxRMDQUxnLE….

Up until 2021, one of the main questions around Stripe was whether we could grow beyond supporting startups. In the past year, Stripe has become a strategic payments partner for Ford Motor Company, Toyota USA, H&M, ZARA, Spotify, and today, Amazon, the world's largest Internet company 🤯

Scaling People is a tactical playbook for building a company and setting its people up for success, from an executive who was deeply involved in driving growth at both Google and @Stripe. Available now: press.stripe.com/scaling-people

Using our internal LLM tool has been really valuable. My favorite feature is preset prompts—which can be lovingly refined by one person—and then shared with everyone else. Popular examples: style guides, SQL query helper, and an ELI5 teacher (pictured).

Stripe, live: bfcm.stripe.dev.

Reflecting on this year, we sought to better understand the extraordinary drive within the AI field in France. <3 to all the builders featured in this video Arthur Mensch Matt Rouif Gabriel Hubert Stanislas Polu Delphine Groll Roxanne Varza Gabriel de Vinzelles youtube.com/watch?v=GDUC_P…

Also a great reminder that "Even the most laborious payment experience is easier than washing dishes for the rest of the night, or being pursued by a spatula-brandishing waiter."

Coming from a French culture that values beauty and craftsmanship above all else has helped me appreciate this deeply. When you birth products for billions of people, you have a responsibility to make them not just useful but also beautiful. Taste is not optional.

📍Moscone We’re getting ready to announce our largest set of updates to @Stripe on Weds. And on Thurs, John Collison will show my personal favorite upcoming product in the Future of payments keynote. See you at Sessions!

Be like AI Will Smith and consume spaghetti. See how Stripe's new usage-based billing product can track consumption and invoice accordingly. Built for your AI, SaaS, or spaghetti business. usagebasedspaghetti.com

Save the date! 📅 Venez prendre un café avec l'équipe Stripe Press le 23 mai et notre invité d'honneur Jordan Mechner, créateur du jeu Prince of Persia. Ce sera aussi le moment de repartir avec toute la collection Stripe Press :) ☕️📚 lu.ma/stripe-press-p…

Speaking of…our next Stripe Press pop-up will be in Paris(!) on Thursday, May 23. AND Jordan Mechner will be in town to talk about Prince of Persia — and to sign copies. We also made a special PoP zine that I can’t wait to share. ❣️ See you soon, Paris: lu.ma/stripe-press-p… 🇫🇷🕹️

Stripe Tour Paris today! Stripe has powered over 100,000 French users since our launch here, now including 50% of CAC40 companies. Excited to announce Alma support, Terminal upgrades, and deeper CB integration, and talk to Arthur Mensch about AI. stripe.com/newsroom/news/…

An excellent discussion with Jeff Weinstein about how Stripe develops products.

Excited to expand the partnership between Nvidia and Stripe: stripe.com/newsroom/news/…. We're training some pretty neat financial foundation models—with Nvidia GPUs—that are improving payments performance for Stripe customers. And Nvidia is extending access to their cloud platform

Tulipmania was a bubble—but so was the Manhattan Project. Under the right conditions, Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber argue, bubbles mobilize the ideas, capital, and energy needed to bring about technological and scientific revolutions. Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation is

I will officially start at OpenAI as CEO of Applications on August 18. I am sharing this essay on why I believe AI can be the greatest source of empowerment for all. 🧵 openai.com/index/ai-as-th…