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We've renamed our open-source AI home: https://lnkd.in/et2RHBb8 (previously agent-toolkit). It’s the central repo for everything we’re building to support AI developers. Find resources for building agents (including MCP and the agent toolkit), monetizing AI products, and optimizing your Stripe integrations. More to come.

Casey Handmer on Cheeky Pint: “One of the mistakes I’ve seen a lot of first-time founders make is they assume that an hour of coaching is as good as an hour of firing. Nothing is worse for your career than sitting in a job failing for you because you don’t have the guts to quit and your manager won’t fire you.” Watch the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/gEUKuJZU.

Over the last year, we've spent hundreds of hours with users to understand their billing needs. These learnings inform our roadmap: we recently shipped expanded support for Billing multiprocessor, a number of flexibility features that support partial payments, un-allocation of payments, mixing of intervals, pre-billing, and so much more. Check out this blog to learn what's new: https://lnkd.in/gTns2VHQ.

bolt.new launched with a single tweet. Founder and CEO Eric Simons shares how his team spent more than 100 hours perfecting that tweet—learn how they acquired 30,000 paying customers in a few weeks and then scaled to 7 million users in just a year. Watch the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/e-YFJGBz.

Dave Ricks, the CEO of Eli Lilly and Company, the world's most valuable pharmaceutical company, sits down with John Collison and Patrick Collison to discuss the complex business of drug development. This is a rare, candid look into the strategies, science, and future of pharma from one of the industry's most influential leaders. Dave explains the true origin story of GLP-1s (from Gila monster saliva), why their potential goes far beyond weight loss to addiction and inflammation, the challenges associated with clinical trial enrollment, and what drove insulin list prices to $275 (while the net price was $40). YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g_YwA-YF Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gYTk7q4a Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gDJHFWKp Full transcript on Substack: https://lnkd.in/g8vjnFVH

Stripe Sessions returns to Moscone West in San Francisco on April 29-30, 2026. Register now: https://lnkd.in/giP9YZ9y.

"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