| 1 | Nov 29, '21 | Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India. Wonderful to watch the amazing success of Indians in the technology world and a | 40.3× | 0 | 110k | 20k | 1.5k |
| 2 | Sep 9, '24 | Mario Draghi's new report on EU competitiveness doesn't mince words. "Across different metrics, a wide gap in GDP has opened up between the EU and the US, driven mainly by a more p | 39.7× | 13M | 12k | 2.5k | 4.8k |
| 3 | Nov 27, '24 | Great to be back in Tel Aviv. I missed this run. | 39.5× | 13M | 18k | 500 | 825 |
| 4 | Mar 23, '25 | This week, a math professor at MIT told me that incoming students are, on average, noticeably worse at math than they used to be. Harvard, of course, just added a remedial math cla | 13.7× | 4.5M | 9.4k | 1.1k | 2.5k |
| 5 | May 30, '25 | I want an AI product that inhabits my AirPods and continually mutters interesting things about the world around me, like an indefatigably burbling tour guide. "The San Mateo Bridge | 13× | 4.3M | 5.6k | 169 | 1.4k |
| 6 | Nov 24, '23 | Stripe, live: . | 9.7× | 3.2M | 6.8k | 706 | 1.3k |
| 7 | Sep 29, '25 | Instant Checkout in ChatGPT, powered by @stripe. | 8.5× | 2.8M | 6k | 414 | 1.4k |
| 8 | Sep 4, '23 | Solar deployment is now happening at a roughly $500B annualized rate. Which technology deployments were larger than this? The US's aircraft production during WWII seems to have pea | 7.7× | 2.5M | 3.5k | 513 | 654 |
| 9 | Jun 26, '24 | This morning, Nature published two papers on bridge editing, the new genome engineering technology from @ArcInstitute: , . I'm quite excited about its potential! Since the whole th | 7.0× | 2.3M | 7.5k | 1.5k | 3.3k |
| 10 | May 21, '20 | "Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money." —@natfriedman | 6.6× | 0 | 15k | 3.3k | 1.8k |
| 11 | Nov 12, '25 | UCSD report: "At our campus, the picture is truly troubling. Between 2020 and 2025, the number of freshmen whose math placement exam results indicate they do not meet middle school | 5.5× | 1.8M | 4.1k | 611 | 685 |
| 12 | Nov 26, '23 | The aggregate revenue of businesses built on Stripe is now around 1% of global GDP. | 5.1× | 1.7M | 6k | 429 | 336 |
| 13 | Jan 12, '20 | I asked Tony Fadell about the iPod timeline for my fast project page. Summary: 😯. | 5.0× | 0 | 12k | 2.4k | 910 |
| 14 | Apr 6, '25 | Having now spent about half my life in each (and loving both), herewith the pros and cons of Europe and the US in everyday life: Better in Europe • Bike lanes and bike infrastructu | 4.7× | 1.6M | 6.6k | 406 | 3.9k |
| 15 | Sep 8, '24 | Reading books/accounts from the 1920s and thereabouts, otherwise high-functioning people regularly seem to have had nervous breakdowns that necessitated months of recuperation in a | 4.1× | 1.4M | 7.8k | 278 | 2k |
| 16 | Apr 8, '24 | I saw someone towing a house while crossing the San Francisco Bay today. Where do I go to learn more? Is this the next trend? | 4.0× | 1.3M | 4.7k | 208 | 557 |
| 17 | May 8, '25 | My conversation with Jony Ive yesterday at @stripe sessions. | 4.0× | 1.3M | 5.2k | 549 | 6.9k |
| 18 | Sep 14, '24 | Sleep masks are probably still my favorite cheap item that improves quality of life, but I just discovered electric insect bite treatment devices, and they're surely a contender. M | 4.0× | 1.3M | 5.9k | 204 | 6.3k |
| 19 | Apr 4, '19 | I recently drove a @Tesla for the first time (yes, late to the party), and it is truly an amazing car. So many details are *years* ahead of everyone else. Genuinely inspiring to se | 3.9× | 0 | 14k | 746 | 39 |
| 20 | Apr 24, '15 | So my working theory is that if you assemble enough enterprise software ads, an airport spontaneously forms around them. | 3.9× | 0 | 8.1k | 3.4k | 103 |
| 21 | Jan 10, '22 | In Q1 2019, 39% of Stripe's hiring was outside Bay Area and Seattle. Last quarter, it was 74%. I think the rate at which tech industry is going global is still under-appreciated, a | 3.8× | 0 | 11k | 1.3k | 492 |
| 22 | Feb 20, '24 | "We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy" is a surprisingly profound quote. When I ask people who've pulled off remarkable t | 3.6× | 1.2M | 5.9k | 685 | 1.8k |
| 23 | Jun 30, '20 | As a US business (and tech) community, I think we should be significantly clearer about our horror at, and opposition to, the atrocities being committed by the Chinese government a | 3.6× | 0 | 9.2k | 2k | 243 |
| 24 | Oct 15, '20 | I couldn’t be more delighted that @Paystack will be joining us at @Stripe. The African tech ecosystem is expanding very rapidly. We and the Paystack team are eager to invest in a b | 3.6× | 0 | 7.7k | 3.1k | 54 |
| 25 | Oct 21, '24 | Stablecoins are room-temperature superconductors for financial services. Thanks to stablecoins, businesses around the world will benefit from significant speed, coverage, and cost | 3.6× | 1.2M | 4k | 488 | 886 |
| 26 | Dec 7, '23 | I was shocked at the refusal to condemn calls for genocide during yesterday's Congressional testimony from the presidents of MIT, Harvard, and Penn. I ended up watching a few hours | 3.3× | 1.1M | 5.3k | 440 | 351 |
| 27 | Dec 15, '21 | I've long been interested in new ways to organize science and enable curiosity-driven discovery. Today, in partnership with @Stanford, @UCBerkeley, and @UCSF, we're excited to anno | 3.1× | 0 | 6.7k | 1.2k | 879 |
| 28 | Jul 20, '18 | While @elonmusk is in the headlines for many reasons these days, this particular chart probably doesn’t get enough attention. 10 years after founding, SpaceX had ~0% market share. | 3.1× | 0 | 7.8k | 1.9k | 70 |
| 29 | Jun 13, '19 | Some day, AI will get so advanced that Google Docs will *automatically* switch to the account has access to the document. | 3.1× | 0 | 9.1k | 1.2k | 43 |
| 30 | Oct 2, '25 | I was walking to the office in New York this morning and noticed an arrestingly beautiful high-rise above me. Turns out it was the Woolworth building, which I'm a bit embarrassed t | 2.9× | 963k | 11k | 374 | 1.5k |
| 31 | Aug 12, '25 | Opinion polling for the next election: UK: Reform leading by 7pp France: RN leading by 10pp Germany: AfD leading by 2pp Italy: FdI leading by 7pp Netherlands: PVV leading by 1pp Sw | 2.9× | 959k | 4.2k | 359 | 898 |
| 32 | Sep 6, '25 | Someone on HN (which is often quite crypto-skeptical) asked why exactly businesses are finding crypto and stablecoins useful. It's a very reasonable question. My response: | 2.8× | 911k | 3.8k | 342 | 3.4k |
| 33 | May 18, '25 | Why are personal injury attorneys the marginal bidder for roadside billboards in so many parts of the US? Is the sector really so large? A priori, I would never have predicted this | ⚡ 2.8× | 13.7M | 5.2k | 698 | 1.6k |
| 34 | Nov 19, '21 | WTA braver than NBA. | 2.7× | 0 | 8.7k | 956 | 84 |
| 35 | Sep 4, '25 | Introducing @Tempo. At Stripe, we care about high-throughput, low-latency payments use cases. As the use of stablecoins (and crypto more broadly) grows across Stripe, Bridge, and P | 2.7× | 889k | 2.9k | 223 | 1.1k |
| 36 | Sep 14, '25 | Observing some people close to me with chronic health conditions, it's striking how useful Reddit frequently ends up being. I think a core reason is because trials aren’t run for a | 2.6× | 844k | 4.7k | 477 | 3.3k |
| 37 | Dec 27, '24 | This year, I read ten important historical novels: Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, To The Lighthouse, Bleak House, Portrait of a Lady, Anna Karenina, Life and Fate, Heart of Darkness, Mada | 2.5× | 815k | 3.6k | 312 | 4k |
| 38 | Sep 29, '25 | We have three cool announcements today: (1) @OpenAI is launching commerce in ChatGPT. Their new Instant Checkout is powered by @stripe. (2) We're releasing the Agentic Commerce Pro | 2.4× | 794k | 5.9k | 527 | 1.9k |
| 39 | Dec 18, '24 | Increasingly believe that the "good, cheap, fast—choose two" maxim is devious misinformation spread by the slow. In my experience, "slow" and "expensive" usually go together. I was | 2.3× | 769k | 3.4k | 298 | 1.2k |
| 40 | Oct 20, '25 | Maybe a very prosaic observation, but I've been reflecting on just how much the pandemic changed the world in ways that are completely unrelated to the pandemic itself. I think I'v | 2.3× | 765k | 3.5k | 278 | 1.6k |
| 41 | Sep 29, '21 | Stripe launched 10 years ago today! Still jump out of the bed as enthusiastically as I did at the outset. (Actually somewhat more so -- wasn't really a morning person back then.) | 2.3× | 0 | 7.7k | 288 | 206 |
| 42 | Jun 23, '20 | Becoming the preeminent locus of agglomeration for the world's plucky up-and-comers has been one of the US's greatest achievements and most potent advantages. | 2.3× | 0 | 5k | 1.4k | 295 |
| 43 | Nov 16, '20 | “The beginnings of all things are small.” | 2.2× | 0 | 6.9k | 655 | 173 |
| 44 | Apr 11, '22 | Before the pandemic, Pfizer was making 200M doses per year across all vaccines. In 2021, they manufactured 3 billion doses of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine -- 15x scale-up, in 1 year, | 2.0× | 0 | 6.3k | 619 | 150 |
| 45 | Mar 22, '18 | “When the boy cried wolf, the village committed Type I and Type II errors, in that order” remains the best hypothesis testing mnemonic. | 2.0× | 0 | 4.3k | 1.5k | 117 |
| 46 | Jul 20, '24 | Am always surprised that wind and solar aren't more popular on the right. Maybe they could be rebranded as "atmospheric gas" and "far-field nuclear". | 1.9× | 628k | 3.9k | 259 | 199 |
| 47 | Jun 24, '19 | Hit our engagement metrics this weekend! 💍 | 1.9× | 0 | 6.8k | 71 | 31 |
| 48 | May 25 | Tyler and I just published a list of the recipients of the New Aesthetics grants: . Thank you very much to all who applied. There were far more applications than we expected. We fu | 1.9× | 620k | 1.4k | 326 | 895 |
| 49 | Oct 9, '20 | Every morning, I get up and am excited for many things (another day on the planet and all that jazz), but the very best part of a new day, at least in the immediate term, is the ch | 1.9× | 0 | 6.1k | 359 | 109 |
| 50 | Oct 7, '24 | As far as I can tell, one of the biggest changes across organizations over the past few years is simply the rise of distraction. The default often appears to be a kind of continuou | 1.8× | 602k | 3.1k | 214 | 1k |
| 51 | Jan 28, '25 | We got these phone booths (a K6 from the 1930s, and a KX100 from the 1990s) for the @stripe lobby, as a reminder that there are always two paths in everything we make: something th | 1.8× | 595k | 5.5k | 534 | 765 |
| 52 | Aug 31, '21 | Stripe, 2011. I decided to assign a custom ringtone to PagerDuty. Chose the iPhone's duck sound. Many (many) problems and pages followed. Years later, walking through park, I heard | 1.8× | 0 | 6.5k | 183 | 88 |
| 53 | Oct 27, '24 | Just noticed that @Sequoia invested in the Series A of 3 of the 4 largest companies in the world. | 1.8× | 585k | 3.7k | 146 | 437 |
| 54 | Jun 3, '18 | I'd pay a *lot* more for books if I could see the highlights, annotations, and marginalia of friends or people I follow. If books really do matter in the world, feels like we'd ben | 1.7× | 0 | 3.8k | 511 | 210 |
| 55 | Nov 3, '25 | An interesting trend we're noticing at Stripe: US startups are pulling ahead of their peers elsewhere. These charts show averaged revenue growth for software startups in each locat | 1.7× | 560k | 3.2k | 383 | 1k |
| 56 | Apr 24, '21 | I very much hope that India receives surplus vaccines and vaccine supplies from the US. Current situation seems catastrophic. | 1.7× | 0 | 4.9k | 745 | 50 |
| 57 | May 9, '21 | Tesla now manufactures slightly more than 1 car every minute and SpaceX launched 2/3 of all tonnage launched to space in the first quarter of 2021. | 1.7× | 0 | 5.3k | 467 | 114 |
| 58 | Aug 21, '24 | Congratulations to @mcannonbrookes, who just received government approval to build the world's largest renewable and storage project. Sun Cable is a preposterously large (24GW+) so | 1.6× | 529k | 3.2k | 372 | 502 |
| 59 | Jun 4, '19 | While long hours can't be a goal, I worry that it's easy to mislead. As a descriptive matter, creating Stripe required obsessive intensity. Maybe better founders could have worked | 1.6× | 0 | 4.2k | 627 | 221 |
| 60 | Feb 8, '25 | Deep Research has written 6 reports so far today. It is indeed excellent. Congrats to the folks behind it. | 1.6× | 511k | 3.9k | 108 | 707 |
| 61 | Sep 29, '20 | We launched Stripe 9 years ago today. Thanks to everyone who bet on us since then! | 1.5× | 0 | 5.3k | 223 | 103 |
| 62 | May 2, '19 | We’ve decided that Stripe’s fifth engineering hub will be Remote: | 1.5× | 0 | 3.8k | 633 | 133 |
| 63 | Mar 14, '21 | We just raised a new round of financing to help support our international expansion and efforts to enable the global startup ecosystem. I’m particularly proud that it’s co-led by N | 1.5× | 0 | 4.5k | 403 | 105 |
| 64 | Jun 3, '21 | More businesses launched on Stripe since the start of 2020 than did in the rest of Stripe's history before then. Overall rate of migration to the internet economy is hard to overst | 1.5× | 0 | 4.5k | 466 | 134 |
| 65 | Nov 27, '20 | @RTE By the way, John and I will personally donate €100,000 to the appeal, too. | 1.5× | 0 | 4.7k | 240 | 7 |
| 66 | Apr 9, '21 | @petulamartyn @Forbes @collision Not only mistaken about Limerick but the idea of "overcoming" anything is crazy. We are who we are *because* we grew up where we did. | 1.5× | 0 | 4.5k | 515 | 8 |
| 67 | Nov 5, '21 | Everyone has noticed ⌘-⇧-A in Chrome, right? (Maybe I'm very late to the party here.) | 1.5× | 0 | 3k | 218 | 987 |
| 68 | Apr 7, '20 | Fast Grants for COVID-19: . | 1.4× | 0 | 2.8k | 1.1k | 155 |
| 69 | Apr 10, '22 | Are M1 Macs yielding a brief and golden window of highly-responsive UIs, where frameworks and libraries haven't yet had enough time to compensate with additional overhead? | 1.4× | 0 | 4.7k | 207 | 166 |
| 70 | Oct 18, '25 | There used to be a fountain at the center of the Civic Center Plaza in SF. It was removed in 2003 because: > It's become an intolerable situation, and we don't have additional reso | 1.4× | 464k | 4k | 205 | 422 |
| 71 | Feb 17, '25 | Perhaps heretical, but I'm very much looking forward to AI making books elastically compressible while preserving writing style and quality. There are so many topics about which I' | 1.4× | 457k | 3.3k | 141 | 820 |
| 72 | Sep 13, '22 | Excited about The Merge! One of the coolest examples of sustained, ambitious, technically difficult open source development. Congratulations and good luck to @VitalikButerin and to | 1.4× | 0 | 4.3k | 376 | 76 |
| 73 | Nov 4, '22 | If you’d like to hire any of the wonderful former Stripe employees who are leaving, email alumni-hiring@stripe.com. We’ll let you know as soon as the directory is ready. | 1.3× | 0 | 3.5k | 497 | 185 |
| 74 | Jul 22, '22 | .@deewhock, creator of Visa, died this week at 93. A very underrated innovator and someone who inspired me and @collision. David Stearns, author of the definitive book about Visa, | 1.3× | 0 | 3.2k | 477 | 475 |
| 75 | Sep 17, '20 | Current photographs of Stripe are also early photographs. | 1.3× | 0 | 4.7k | 145 | 89 |
| 76 | Jan 16, '21 | Around 500 people 65+ are dying per day in California. (~75% of all deaths.) In total, 6 million people in CA are 65+. CA currently has 2 million unused vaccine doses. Thousands of | 1.3× | 0 | 3.5k | 609 | 76 |
| 77 | Jan 21, '21 | Reviewing @Stripe's roadmap for 2021 and, even compressed, it is *11 pages* of phenomenal material. (By a significant margin our most ambitious to date.) What are your top requests | 1.3× | 0 | 3.3k | 121 | 369 |
| 78 | May 23, '22 | It would be nice if color pickers somehow indicated which colors have already been used in a document/file. "Which green did I use earlier? Right, third from the bottom." | 1.2× | 0 | 4.3k | 137 | 74 |
| 79 | Oct 12, '21 | Fun fact: the US decided to build "the world's first full-scale atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime uses" in 1953 and it went live in 1957. That is, it too | 1.2× | 0 | 3.1k | 552 | 139 |
| 80 | May 14, '25 | Love the new Airbnb icons! | 1.2× | 389k | 3k | 80 | 535 |
| 81 | Apr 8, '25 | Every other week, we have a customer join for the first 30 minutes of our management team meeting: they share their candid feedback, and ~40 leaders from across Stripe listen. Even | 1.1× | 365k | 3.3k | 128 | 984 |
| 82 | Jan 31, '22 | How did YouTube make all the top-ranked comments wholesome and funny? And are those techniques generalizable? | 1.1× | 0 | 3k | 166 | 354 |
| 83 | Dec 15, '20 | Someone I know has had some quite useful COVID-related posts removed from Medium, LinkedIn, and Nextdoor—they've been deemed "COVID misinformation". (It's not what the WHO endorses | 1.1× | 0 | 2.8k | 318 | 256 |
| 84 | Feb 8, '22 | Stripe is partnering with Apple to enable Tap to Pay on iPhone: . (You can sign up to be notified when it's available over at .) | 1.1× | 0 | 2.8k | 378 | 116 |
| 85 | Sep 20, '20 | Calvin and Hobbes, December 30 1989. | 1.1× | 0 | 3.1k | 446 | 96 |
| 86 | Dec 23, '23 | I wish digital maps had a setting to increase label density by a factor of 10+, for a perspective like the road atlases of yore. We manufacture these amazing high-resolution displa | 1.1× | 351k | 3.5k | 194 | 228 |
| 87 | Jan 3, '25 | Buenos Aires water pumping station (built 1894) and Melbourne water pumping station (built 1897). What was in the air -- or, I suppose, the water -- back then? | 1.0× | 345k | 2.9k | 170 | 340 |
| 88 | Feb 16, '22 | Browsers really need File > Save Page as PNG. How are we still exporting PDFs with page breaks and print stylesheets like twentieth century troglodytes? | 1.0× | 0 | 3.4k | 134 | 145 |
| 89 | May 20, '20 | Businesses launched on @Stripe since lockdowns began in March have -- somewhat incredibly -- already generated more than $1 billion in aggregate revenue. We're very glad to be able | 1.0× | 0 | 3.2k | 324 | 68 |
| 90 | Jul 29, '19 | Can't think of a better time to proudly announce that we're hiring in Baltimore. | 1.0× | 0 | 3.3k | 320 | 9 |
| 91 | Jun 11, '21 | My letter to the editor in response to . | 1.0× | 0 | 2.9k | 330 | 130 |
| 92 | Sep 9, '20 | View post on X | 1.0× | 0 | 3k | 361 | 121 |
| 93 | Feb 18, '21 | View post on X | 1.0× | 0 | 3.4k | 243 | 30 |
| 94 | May 30, '25 | AI is getting pretty good. | 1.0× | 328k | 3.9k | 239 | 335 |
| 95 | May 25, '21 | We started with 7 lines of code but integrating Stripe now requires 0 lines of code: | 1.0× | 0 | 3.1k | 201 | 162 |
| 96 | Oct 18, '19 | My new card just arrived! 😍 | 1.0× | 0 | 3.2k | 241 | 51 |
| 97 | Nov 29, '22 | Congratulations to the Stripe infrastructure teams! With record scale, Black Friday and Cyber Monday passed uneventfully. >20,000 peak RPS and >99.9999% API success rate. | 1.0× | 0 | 3.2k | 162 | 70 |
| 98 | Apr 2, '25 | Despite being a paragon of modernism, it's interesting that Apple always seems to choose traditional architecture when available. | 0.9× | 302k | 4.9k | 201 | 529 |
| 99 | Nov 27, '20 | @RTE The @Stripe team just 5x'd the capacity for the RTE Toy Show Appeal. We aren't seeing any issues right now. | 0.9× | 0 | 2.9k | 156 | 6 |
| 100 | Nov 30, '20 | What a morning for science and technology! More excellent Moderna vaccine news and DeepMind makes a giant leap in single domain protein structure prediction. Humans are awesome! ⚗️ | 0.8× | 0 | 2.7k | 205 | 48 |
| 101 | Jan 28, '25 | Congratulations to @boomsupersonic! | 0.5× | 163k | 3.2k | 143 | 66 |
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