2024-10-22
Stripe acquiring Bridge is an incredibly smart long term strategic move. Paying $1B for Bridge could be the payments sector version of the Instagram acquisition. Stripe's north star has always been “increasing the GDP of the internet” & the company's focus was building the
CoinDesk
Stripe announces a finalized deal to buy stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge; Michael Arrington says the deal is worth $1.1B; Bridge has raised $54M
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk :
2023-09-19
Ex Square /Block employees are about to hit the money train on GLG / expert network calls from hedge funders. Raise your hourly rates to max levels, they will hit that bid! https://www.marketwatch.com/ ...
CNN
Filing: Alyssa Henry, the CEO of Block's Square unit, plans to step down on October 2 after nine years at the company; Jack Dorsey will become the “Square Head”
2022-10-21
I've never been more “get off my lawn” old man then when reading the end of this article. The idea that well run / strict perf management impacting employee “psychological safety” is HILARIOUS to me. https://www.forbes.com/...
Forbes
Sources: senior Stripe executives asked managers to restart giving lower ratings on performance reviews to 10% to 15% of staff, to prune the company's workforce
2022-05-05
There is a non-zero chance Stripe follows a similar playbook to their Identity product and takes this Bank Connections infra and exposes it externally to its customers. I'd even argue they could make it completely free... very fintech that sits on a bank auth API will take note https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Stripe launches Financial Connections to let its customers pull their users' banking data directly, debuting first in the US for $0.10 to $1.50 per API call
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Very smart and strategic move by Stripe that has implications across the fintech infra landscape. “Stripe launching Financial Connections to pull banking data automatically” https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Stripe launches Financial Connections to let its customers pull their users' banking data directly, debuting first in the US for $0.10 to $1.50 per API call
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
2019-09-06
Super excited to announce @Stripe Capital today. It started as a side project btwn BD & Finance teams, awesomely codenamed “Project Bootstrap.” Incredibly proud of the work seeding this & congrats to the Capital team on taking the baton this last yr to get it to launch. BOOM! https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Stripe launches Stripe Capital, a service for advancing loans to customers that get repaid out of future sales made through Stripe's platform, in the US
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :