Stripe

Earlier this year, Anupam Upadhyay and I set ourselves a new goal: 10x every Stripe in the same way coding agents had 10x-ed engineers. That idea evolved into Stripe’s Knowledge AI Platform, our in-house AI tool. Today, 80% of Stripes use it weekly across more than 20,000 sessions every day. It helps people turn fragmented context spread across various internal systems into answers and usable artifacts. And the impact is being felt all around us - we just learned that Account Execs close almost 40% more deals when they use it! Read how we built a platform that scales expertise across Stripe: https://lnkd.in/g-RV3pcn

There comes a time in every acquisition where you ask yourself 'was this worth it? Did we actually inflect the business?' This week - we can definitively answer that question: "yes, hell yes." Our new revenue growth 5x'ed QoQ, demand has been unprecedented, and a few weeks ago we did a thing I never thought we'd do: we made Metronome self serve. We are now onboarding more new users in a quarter than we did in the first several years of our life. Come join HuggingFace, Anthropic, Nvidia and the rest of the world on purpose-built billing software for AI. signup.metronome.com

Businesses often tell me they believe the best way to fight a “product not received” dispute is to submit more evidence. We analyzed one million “product not received” disputes on Stripe and found that evidence specificity matters more than volume. For physical goods, delivery information was the strongest signal we studied. Businesses that submitted delivery confirmation, a GPS delivery map, and a recipient signature saw a 44 percentage point higher win rate than businesses that did not submit these types of evidence. The same lesson applies to digital goods: disputes that had activity logs that showed that a customer accessed or used the specific product saw a 10 percentage point higher win rate than disputes without them. Smart Disputes is designed to apply these best practices for you, helping you save time and recover revenue. It uses AI to automatically assemble tailored evidence packets for eligible card disputes so you don’t have to manually implement them dispute by dispute. Read the analysis: https://lnkd.in/gQrBZTiN.

New providers on Stripe Projects are available now: Chatbase Composio NodeOps Customer.io Datadog Depot Klaviyo Pydantic RevenueCat Schematic Spaceship.com Steel.dev Tabstack

New: templates for Stripe Projects. Generate a working starter app with services like hosting, auth, databases, and billing integrated. See the demo from Michael Selander.

"More people will become entrepreneurs with AI. It's never been as easy to test ideas, and if you strike gold, you're going to grow much faster than ever before. We're starting to see solo entrepreneurs on track to build $1 billion businesses on Replit." — Michele Catasta, President and Head of AI at Replit Stripe Head of Product, Data and AI Eeke de Milliano interviews Michele Catasta to discuss the decisions that defined Replit's path, what it takes to grow to 50 million users, and how to lead a company-wide shift to AI. Watch the full interview: https://lnkd.in/g9fYCTTK.

Conor McNamara sits down with investor and tech analyst Philipp Klöckner to discuss the impact of AI on the global economy, arguing that regions with the most affordable energy and natural resources will win. They explore what the automation wave means for Germany’s labor shortages, and the critical need for a cultural shift, where engineers build new companies that accelerate economic growth: https://lnkd.in/gpbJvvnF.

We’re making Open USD the default for businesses using stablecoins on Stripe. Coming soon.