Yesterday we got the entire @StripeCrypto team together at the Stripe HQ and it was a MOVIE! With some serious help from @DylanAbruscato we organized an unofficial 4th szn of CTG “Stripe Island” If you like crypto rails, obsessing over customers, and good times, come join us!

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EXCITED TO LAUNCH: Akai (akai.run) Deel added >$140M ARR in 90 days without increasing headcount by automating~600 Full Time Employees' equivalent in work with Akai. Akai was an internal tool to automate our painfully repetitive operations in Finance, HR, Accounts Payable, and Compliance, etc. We never intended to make this a product. But we watched revenue per employee grow from $130K to $215K We built >8k agents that do the work of ~600 employees It had such a dramatic impact on our business that today we are launching it for everyone. How it works: Say you're automating payment reconciliation: 1. Record your screen while manually matching a messy transaction and Akai will capture your screen, voice, server requests 2. Akai will see that you pulled unformatted wire transfer info from an archaic bank portal, put it in some excel sheet, checked NetSuite invoices, payment history, and put a ticket on Zendesk 3. Akai reads between the lines and build a workflow + steps + conditional guardrails. It learns tacit edge cases, like resolving malformed invoice references without you writing a single regex 4. Simply connect NetSuite, your ledger, Zendesk, PSPs, and even legacy bank portals with zero API access 5. Run the workflow and tell it what to adjust in plain English: "strip slashes on wire memos and auto-apply partial payments." It adapts instantly 6. Once it works for you, add 100s of colleagues. Your entire payment ops team forks and extends the workflow for new PSPs, secondary ledgers, or regional settlement rules 7. We automated 85% of our payment reconciliation end to end, eliminating 500+ hours of soul-crushing manual grunt work every single week. Claude Code/Codex can't do this in multiplayer mode. Every person rebuilds the same skill from scratch in their own way. Deel built Akai to: 1. Understand backend operations edge cases (it had to work for our 7000 person team first) 2. Collaborative across 1000s of employees 3. Self-Learning from millions of runs 4. Optimises cost and gets cheaper every run We're so confident that we're announcing an Automation Guarantee: If our engineers can't automate a thousand of hours of work in your first 30 days, you get a full refund. Book a demo: akai.run if you're an exec at a company with hundreds of employees

The month you were born predicts which diseases you are most likely to get. A 2015 study at Columbia University scanned the medical records of 1.7 million patients and found 55 diseases with a statistically significant link to birth month. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association by Mary Regina Boland. She used data from New York Presbyterian Hospital covering patients born between 1900 and 2000 and checked every diagnosis against birth month while controlling for age, sex, and other factors. October babies had the highest risk of respiratory infections. March babies had the highest risk of heart disease. January babies had higher rates of hypertension. Summer babies had lower rates of most respiratory conditions. The relationships were not small, and many of them lined up with findings from earlier studies in different countries. The mechanism is seasonal exposure during pregnancy and early life. A baby born in October was in the womb during the summer, when air quality is different, sunlight exposure is higher, and the mother's diet shifts with the season. A baby born in March spent its third trimester in winter, when vitamin D levels drop and respiratory viruses circulate. The immune system and the cardiovascular system are being built during those months, and what the environment provides at that stage leaves a mark that lasts. You cannot change when you were born. The study is not a prediction of your future. It is a reminder that the body carries the weather of its first year for the rest of its life, and the data comes from 1.7 million people. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2604…

I’ve spent most of my career as a quiet, behind-the-scenes operator, so sharing this feels particularly vulnerable. But here we go... Meet WIT.

1/ Looking to launch a stablecoin card program? With Privy and @stripe, you can now do that in as little as a month. Today, Privy is launching prebuilt components for cards: one integration to embed the full cardholder experience in your app and launch across 25+ countries.

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Tempo and @privy_io are launching a limited-time 7% Earn boost for eligible customers. Apply by Sept. 30 for a boosted rewards rate on the first $10M, plus no gas fees for 3 months. Supported vaults use @morpho infrastructure and @sentorahq curation.

1/ What does it look like to build business financial products with stablecoins? @tednotlasso sat down with @chapello to walk through @tryramp’s Stablecoin Accounts. See how Ramp uses Privy to give businesses a way to hold digital dollars and move money globally, 24/7.