Stripe hits a $159B valuation after an employee share sale to investors like Thrive, Coatue, and a16z, a 70% jump from its $92B valuation in February 2025
Deal will allow payments company to stay private for longer — Stripe's valuation has soared by more than 70 per cent to $159bn …
Financial Times Akila Quinio
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@adrianweckler
Adrian Weckler
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Stripe revalued at $159bn (€135bn) after staff tender. $1.9tn payment volume, up 34% Spoke to John Collison. - Housing/infrastucture: “people should be fed up” - Banks not lending enough - US Trump tariffs + he spoke about interviewing Elon Musk https://www.independent.ie/... [im…
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@sarthakgh
Sar Haribhakti
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Stripe's annual letter is out! Last year, businesses on Stripe processed $1.9T in volume (+34% YoY) ≈ 1.6% of global GDP The 2025 cohort is the strongest ever: 50% faster growth vs 2024 on average Stripe now supports: 5M+ businesses 90% of DJI, 80% of NDX, 25% of Delaware
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@collision
John Collison
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The internet economy is speeding up! We just released our annual letter, detailing everything we're seeing with startup formation, agentic commerce, stablecoins, and lots more. https://stripe.com/...
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@tempo
@tempo
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Tempo mentioned [image]
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@collision
John Collison
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In our annual letter, we describe the progression we expect in agentic commerce. You tend to hear the later levels discussed in the hype, but we're already seeing lots of activity in levels 1 and 2 of agentic commerce. Read more: https://stripe.com/... [image]
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@ruxandrateslo
Ruxandra Teslo
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Clinical trials as barrier to drug development in the AI era. Technologies are only as powerful as the institutional and cultural frameworks in which they operate allow them to be. Software doesn't have to worry about this as much, but atoms innovation doesn't have this luxury [i…
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@jsfranklin221
Jared Franklin
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“Is 2025 an anomaly or the beginning of a new regime? Time will adjudicate, but our best guess is that the 2025 acceleration is the start of a larger inflection in entrepreneurship and creativity facilitated by advances in large language models.” https://stripe.com/...
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@backseatvc
Jen
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More than a page of Stripe's 2025 annual letter is dedicated to stablecoins 🔥 [image]
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@scp_hughes
Samuel Hughes
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Remarkable. [image]
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@gaybrick
Will Gaybrick
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The internet economy is speeding up: new businesses on @stripe in 2025 are by far the highest performing and fastest we've seen, growing around 50% faster than the 2024 cohort. [image]
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@bswud
Ben Southwood
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How lucky I am to work for a company like this! [image]
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@jeff_weinstein
Jeff Weinstein
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Our @stripe 2025 letter: - $1.9T volume (1.6% of global GDP) - 5M businesses - 1 in 4 new DE corps via @atlas - '25 cohort growing 50% faster vs. '24 - 2x users w/ $10M ARR in 3 mo - 57% of new users non-US - 200M @link users - Loans to 81K biz - 100K vibe'd sandboxes - 3K words
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@jevgenijs
@jevgenijs
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“Last year, businesses running on Stripe generated $1.9 trillion in total volume, up 34% from 2024, and equivalent to roughly 1.6% of global GDP.” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Stripe's 2025 Annual Letter: https://stripe.com/...
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@matthuang
Matt Huang
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Stripe on the singularity “We're reminded of the phenomenon of falling into a large black hole. If you ever experience that particular misfortune, you won't actually feel anything special at the moment you cross the event horizon: the path is locally smooth, even though the