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I joined Stripe's Friday Fireside last week with John Collison and Patrick Collison to talk about databases, partnerships, and growth this year. IMO Stripe is one of the only developer-focused companies that remained relevant while scaling up. I've admired Stripe since it launched, so it was an honor to be invited to talk. Also cool that today we are transferring our open source "Stripe Sync Engine" to Stripe: https://lnkd.in/e7b7x6sg This is a tool that we started in 2021 to "Continuously synchronize a Stripe account to a Postgres database": https://lnkd.in/eD_HAtJM Stripe engineers started contributing to this repo last year, eventually integrating it into the Stripe dashboard. The transfer means the repo will sit inside the Stripe GitHub org and meet their security requirements - staying open source under the Apache 2.0 license. The Supabase team will continue to contribute to this repo This is how Supabase has operated since we launched. We don't just want to be an open source company - we want to be a _collaborative_ company: supporting existing tools and communities wherever possible, employing maintainers, donating patents, and giving back to communities that push the developer ecosystem further

Mati Staniszewski is the co-founder of ElevenLabs, the research company making audio accessible across languages and voices. He sits down with John Collison to discuss the "voice Turing Test" and why AI has conquered text but still struggles with conversational speech. They discuss the future of human-computer interaction, including why we still can't get our phones to read a PDF properly and the massive potential for voice agents in everything from farming to healthcare. Mati also opens up about ElevenLabs’ rapid ascent to an $11 billion valuation and gives a behind-the-scenes look at how Ukraine is using their tech for digital government services. YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gkWYHRid Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gEniXzz9 Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gxz6SvC2 Full transcript on Substack: https://lnkd.in/ghku3tNz

Sundar Pichai explains milliseconds latency budgets for Google Search: "I’ve always internalized speed as one of the distinguishing features of a great product. It almost always reflects the technical underpinnings of the product having been done well. It's easy to say you want low latency, but you're constantly adding capabilities. The capability frontier is progressing. That's where it gets more complicated. But to give an example, Search they now have latency budgets, in the milliseconds. If you ship something which shaves off three milliseconds, you earn 1.5 milliseconds for your latency budget, and 1.5 milliseconds gets passed onto the user. Depending on what we think you're doing, some people may get a latency budget of 30 milliseconds or 10 milliseconds. That's how much we think it matters." YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gY4HRtJs Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g3hA3kQ7 Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gi82kspG Full transcript on Substack: https://lnkd.in/gSPdzebz

We've written a new white paper detailing how Stripe applies AI across the payment lifecycle: https://lnkd.in/gVhquNn7.

Great experience joining Patrick Collison and John Collison for a fireside chat with Stripe last week! I joined Manuel J Godoy to share the Félix story, what we’re building across remittances, financial products, and cross-border services powered by new rails. Big shoutout to our amazing AE Valentina Buitron!

79% of Gen Z shoppers now prefer digital wallets over other payment methods. Globally, digital wallets account for 30% of total point-of-sale volume. We analyzed checkout activity across 20K businesses on Stripe to understand how agents, digital wallets, and trust are rewriting checkout. Read the blog: https://lnkd.in/gTSaxRkh.

Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet. He sits down with John Collison and Elad Gil to discuss Google’s resurgence in the AI race, managing a massive $180 billion CapEx budget, and why 2026 is the year of the supply crunch. They cover the constraints of memory and power, why he believes the US economy will grow significantly due to AI, and the internal cultural shift back to "Googley" optimism. Sundar also shares details on long-term bets like data centers in space, why he wishes he had funded Waymo even faster, and the small thing inside Google that still ignites his passion for building. YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gY4HRtJs Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g3hA3kQ7 Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gi82kspG Full transcript on Substack: https://lnkd.in/gSPdzebz

Christina Cacioppo, founder and CEO of Vanta, joins the pub to discuss building the future of agentic trust. She explains why compliance has a “vitamin vs painkiller” dynamic, the drama behind their famous 101-billboard campaign, and why she believes "market sizing is bullshit." They cover the tension between vibe coding and rigorous security, how Vanta is using agents to generate UI, and why the best founders are relentless truth-seekers. YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gbVejU2W  Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gdBJAUyx Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/g8gsYmFP Full transcript on Substack: https://lnkd.in/gPXJF8Rc