"By the end of 2026, agents will read more Stripe docs than humans. Your job is to sell to agents in 2026. You have to be the vendor of choice not just for humans, but for agents." with @MaiaJo_ AI CRO @stripe

A quick EU founder survey: eusurvey.vercel.app.

Hi @patrickc - Judith from @langdock here. We just crossed €50m ARR and flipped from a US Inc -> European SE. We want Germany to make starting and running companies easier (first on the list: compulsory notarization). At the same time, building a big company from here is absolutely possible and we intend to prove it. The SE is actually a good structure, but it's not an option for founders who are just starting out. That's why we are big supporters of @euinc. We're bullish on Germany - and bullish we can do even better. Both can be true at the same time. Happy to chat more.

Today, a subcommittee on Edinburgh Council chose to IGNORE Granton. They prioritised a small group of NIMBYs over: 👉 One of Scotland’s most deprived communities 👉 Families moving into the 3,500 new homes 👉 More JOBS for the people of Granton, Muirhouse, and Pilton 👉 Access to Edinburgh College, Craigleith Retail Park & Western General Hospital. 👉 Companies expanding and SCALING. Local groups want the tram. @tracygilbert wants the tram. Polling shows the PEOPLE of Granton & Edinburgh WANT the tram. The Council has the power to OVERRULE. GIVE GRANTON THE TRAM. Help us force them to do it. Join our campaign.

We’re pulling up too

london is on the startup come up thanks a lot also to companies like @ElevenLabs @attio @UseCorgi @meetgranola @raycast and community builders like @isnit0 @oscarfalll @HamzaZaveri @decmclaughlin_ @theshre @rowans_planet @CharlieCheesma1 @fatemallk hoping @pallyai starts to make an impact here too shortly

Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a 90-page investment contract read to him (mandatory under German law; § 13 BeurkG) by a notary that then charged €30,000. That was for his first company. His second company, needless to say, was not incorporated in Germany.

Instinct + Stripe Instinct users who make purchases spend over $1300/month on average through Instinct. Using Instinct to make high value purchases is a sign of trust that we deeply value. We’re partnering with Stripe to deliver a more seamless payment experience. Instinct has enabled use cases that involve payments including: - Planning and booking international trips - Ordering weekly groceries and household essentials - Booking yoga classes, ski tuning sessions, doctor’s appointments, car part repairs, and more - Getting you the best price for anything you’re looking for

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and Mario Draghi have created the Rhine Group, an organisation for European revival. They state that decline is not inevitable, and instead Europe should focus towards a common destiny where we have the capability to compete, build and grow.

An announcement: Under the leadership of Mario Draghi and @patrickc we have set up the Rhine Group: policymakers, economists, entrepreneurs and business people pushing European reforms and the Draghi agenda. rhinegroup.eu/

a16z’s Borderless Founder network initiative supports immigrant and international founders. 'Having one foot in your home country, and one foot in Silicon Valley," is an advantage, the firm believes. spr.ly/6012B1iON0

60 minutes re: how @stripe is building for, and with, AI. (Even though I work pretty deeply on this stuff, I always learn something from hearing @gaybrick explain it clearly.)

Adding Starlink to every UK train would be an incredible productivity boost 🛰️

Who needs mysterious Thai-based crypto-billionaires or convicted criminals called Posh George? You can support Team Binface by bunging me the cost of a trio of affordable croissants (£3) at ko-fi.com/countbinface. Or don’t. I love you either way.

Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house. Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it. Leave him to me.

Our offices run air conditioning at 22°C, 365 days a year. That isn't a perk. It's a performance decision. The data is clear. Cognitive performance peaks at around 22°C and drops off on either side, roughly 1% for every degree you move away from it. Cornell found workers at ~22°C made fewer errors and got more done than those left too hot or too cold. Off the back of this we're building a Human Performance team at Fuse. First hire is a Workplace Performance Manager, owning everything that makes our people sharper and more productive, pushing the absolute limit of human performance. This week the European Commission shut off the AC for staff on lower floors while commissioners on the upper floors kept theirs running. That's the degrowth mindset in one image: ask the people doing the actual work to sweat for a rounding error of emissions, while the people at the top stay cool. We reject the premise entirely. The answer to energy isn't to ration comfort and call it virtue. It's to build more of it, clean and abundant, so nobody has to choose between performance and the planet. That's the whole reason Fuse exists. 22°C. Seven days a week. For everyone.

Getting a cold or the flu seems like an inevitable and benign feature of everyday life. And yet, respiratory infections kill 1 million people every year, cost the global economy $600B in annual productivity losses, and are linked to increased risks of serious illnesses including heart attacks, dementia, and Alzheimer's. We shouldn't settle for that. The science to address these viruses has advanced, but the commercial incentives to develop that science into real public health products aren’t strong enough. Stripe faced the same dynamic with carbon removal when we launched Frontier. Intercept is built on the same logic: if a problem matters but the commercial incentives aren't there, you have to create them. interceptfund.com/

A Scottish startup has taken out billboards in Boston to thank/apologise to the city for the 50k scots that descended on the city. It has also sent 367 bottles of custom Scotch to Boston. The 50k strong Tartan Army travelled to the city for their first world cup in 28 years and completely drank the city DRY. Sam Adams' downtown taproom reportedly drank dry, Hennessy's sold out, and Tennent's flew in emergency reinforcements. So now @WrdsmithAI, the index-backed legal AI startup founded by @rossmcnairn, has taken out billboards across Boston and sent Scotch to apologise. Some GREAT marketing here 😂

This is one of the messages Daniela Groza has received from people who wear Auzi® creations. Together with her partner, she built this brand to transform hearing aids and cochlear implants from hidden devices into jewelry worn with pride pozitivesti.ro/auzi-brandul-…

Awesome chat with these gentleman Keywords: “Flywheel” “agentic commerce” We look better irl! Nice to meet! 🫶 @JeromeTomasini @decmclaughlin_