@tempo and @stripe are co-hosting an invite-only event at our South San Francisco HQ next week for developers and product leads to learn about the Machine Payments Protocol and future of agent-y payments. A few spots are still available. DM/email if you’re interested in joining.

Ever wanted to craft a new consumer-grade money+identity wallet for the internet (across mobile/web/api)? Now's your chance! We're hiring a product manager (or founder-y person) to build @link at Stripe. Bonus: you get to work for @danhilltech, one of our sharpest nicest people.

If you have successfully integrated Stripe using agents: 1) how are you using agents for other tasks (e.g. products, refunds, coupons, payment methods)? 2) what are you using (e.g. Codex / Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT / Cowork)? 3) what sucked? what are your top 2-3 wishes?

if you're a founder building on @stripe, join us for coworking with the team and private preview demos at build days, coming to: 8/19 - sydney 8/26 - singapore 9/24 - shanghai 9/29 - cdmx drop a 👋 if you're in one of these cities and so i can intro you to Stripe Startups!

Meow and Tempo are excited to partner to provide best-in-class business banking solutions invoicing and payouts. @meow is a market leader that powers banking for AI agents and global businesses, now adding stablecoin settlement on Tempo. Enabling both agents and finance teams to move money in under a second for a fraction of a cent.

Dialectic 51: Nan Ransohoff! @nanransohoff thinks more of the world's most impressive people should work in philanthropy. And that they needn't sacrifice ambition or upside to do so. Nan leads public goods at @stripe. That includes Frontier (carbon removal) and Intercept (respiratory illness). She's also written about how we need more "general managers" (read: more 'Nan's) and how philanthropy is about to undergo explosive growth thanks to AI money. I talked to Nan about: - GMs and identifying orphaned problems to own end-to-end - coordinating the market to spend billions to suck carbon from the sky and end the common cold - how vision is in short supply - what philanthropy can learn from startups and VCs - the third wave of American philanthropy (driven by billions in OAI/Anthropic philanthropic dollars that will need to be spent) - how many things we may want (good, beauty, meaning) may be harder to quantify and thus require a different philanthropic approach - getting off the "gold star" established path and choosing a life and ambition of her own making Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights 1:15 - Intro to Nan 4:53 - Start: What is a Nan? Nerd-Sniped by Orphaned Problems 12:39 - GMs, Seeing the Chessboard, and Working Backwards from Outcomes 18:55 - Good Taste in Problems, Vision, and Good Finish Lines 35:43 - Advance Market Commitments Tactically Solving Carbon Removal 41:35 - Focus and Sketching Out or Slicing Up Messy Problems 49:39 - Legibility, Public Rallying, and Ambition in Philanthropy 54:38 - Third Wave Philanthropy and Hard to Quantify Problems 1:06:50 - Risk Tolerance in Philanthropy and Scarcity of Funders and Allocators 1:15:22 - The $40B Tidal Wave of New AI-Money and Why Start Now 1:19:53 - Amount of Capital, Government Philanthropy, and Making Philanthropic Founders Rich 1:31:44 - Nan's Mid-Career Inflection Point and Getting Off the Obvious Path 1:39:47 - Grab-bag: Why Stripe Funds Public Goods, Making Things with Friends, Creative Partnership, Iceland Drone, and Scone Heads 1:49:39 - Syllabi for the Squishy Topics & Study vs. Experience 1:57:01 - Inputs & Outputs and GLPs for Attention 2:04:38 - Closing: Interviewing Parents and Imagining an Obituary @DialecticPod 51: Nan Ransohoff - Power Laws for Philanthropy - is out now below and on all platforms.

Ever seen "ONLY SEND X TO THIS ADDRESS, ANYTHING ELSE WILL BE LOST" and sweated as you sent your transaction? Gone are these days, we built receive policies to solve this class of problems for every day users.

Agents can now pay for orders with @coinbase's x402 on Zinc joining @tempo & @stripe Link as a supported rail on MPP Plus: wire funding (same-day T+0), carrier delivery estimates, and auto top-up hardening Changelog →

4) Agentic payments To support agentic commerce, we plan to add x402 and Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) support to Brave Search API and our other projects. This will allow your browser to handle autonomous transactions, privately and securely.

New: Roll Up Vehicles + Value Add Network Companies can now access a network of high-quality angels and VCs built into their RUV. VAN is comprised of top operators, founders, GPs, syndicate leads, and super-angels selected by founders specifically for their value-add. Tap into VAN to top off your round with people who can help: • navigate specific industries • build distribution & GTM motions • recruit great talent Multiple companies like Recursive Superintelligence, have already received millions in commitments from value add angels and VCs. Our goal is for RUV + VAN to be the place to go to design your most helpful investor.

Okay, wayyy more people reached out re: @stripe helping you with ad stuff than expected. We will need a moment to get back to each of you. Hold please. (Also, if you’re a self-motivated product-engineer and want to work on building this with us, please reach out. We are hiring!)

Looking for a few SaaS startups that: - use @stripe for subscriptions, - don't yet run [Google, Meta, etc] ads, - want to run their first ads, - and would be willing to intensely give us feedback on a dashboard for analyzing the impact of ad spend. dm or jweinstein@stripe.com

Rollups, from @AngelList, continues to build straightforward, obviously good things for founders. This time, they shipped an easy way to find useful angel investors (so called, "value-add" ones). I'm personally excited to be listed here and ready help more startups. Take a look.