How Silicon Valley billionaires raised $333M+ to try to defeat a 5% California wealth tax; Patrick Collison's $33M is his most serious campaign engagement yet
Every Tuesday for the last few months, two dozen of the world's richest people or their advisers hop onto a conference call and plan for war.
Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding
compounded by the rise of AI. That shift accelerated even more than I expected. Metronome became the monetization infrastructure Jeff Weinstein / @jeff_weinstein : Welcome @getmetronome to @stripe! Us...
A profile of Stripe's John and Patrick Collison; sources say the startup's gross revenue rose 60% YoY to nearly $12B in 2021 as net revenue reached almost $2.5B
Billionaire brothers John and Patrick Collison built Stripe into one of the world's most-hyped, highest valued — and profitable! — startups, worth some $95 billion. Tweets: @alexrkonrad , @narasimhaka...
CB Insights data: US added 154 new unicorns since October 2020, 67%+ of the global total, while Europe added 25 unicorns, India added 11, and China added just 9
I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the last 8 months the number … Tweets: @patrickc , @hkanji , @tanayj , and @akothari Tweets: Patrick Colli...
Spotify launches paid podcast subscriptions for creators in the US, at no cost to creators for two years and a 5% fee starting in spring 2023
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — This Article is a follow-up in two ways: MacDailyNews : Apple Podcasts Subscriptions: The good and the bad Jason Snell / Six Colors : The good and bad of Appl...
How Stripe became Silicon Valley's most valuable private company by being capital efficient at scale and having a self-sustaining core payments business
Underpinning $95bn valuation is investors' belief that payments digitisation still has some way to run Tweets: @financialtimes , @tim , @benedictevans , @carnage4life , @patrickc , and @katie_roof Twe...
Stripe extends its business lending service Stripe Capital to online platforms, offering an “end-to-end lending API” to provide customers with financing options
Payments giant Stripe is taking Stripe Capital, its push into online business finance and lending, to the next level. Tweets: @patrickc , @stripe , @stripe , @jess , @itsjoeco , @jeremiahdillon , @roh...
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison says the company has raised $245M at a $20B valuation, up from $9B in November 2016
What Apple Pay Head Jennifer Bailey Learned at Netscape Piruze Sabuncu / Stripe Blog : Singapore engineering hub Holden Page / Crunchbase News : Stripe's Valuation Reaches $20B On $245M Raise Dan Prim...