EMEA Startups @Stripe | Co-Founder https://nitter.cf/t.co/aDk2MGseW0
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Joined March 2018
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
Funding rounds aren't milestones. It shouldn't be your goal to raise a series A. It should be your goal not to need to.
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
.@MercedesAMGF1 is the leading F1 team and the best business in the sport. Toto Wolff is the only owner-principal. I was excited to sit him down and understand his business background, how they run engineering under the constantly-changing rules, his views on the industry, and how he's preparing for succession.
00:00:22 Spotting driver talent
00:06:24 Engineering and team selection
00:09:11 The F1 cost cap
00:25:21 Toto’s early investing career
00:38:15 Running Mercedes as an owner
00:46:47 Why F1 team values exploded
01:08:24 Succession planning
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
We're partnering with @MercedesAMGF1.
Read: stripe.com/newsroom/news/mer….
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
Introducing The Cheeky Pint Benchmark.
We made our intern watch every episode of Cheeky Pint to bring you this breakdown of pints drank by guests to the nearest sixth.
Congratulations to @elonmusk who is currently in the lead with three full pints of Guinness.
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
Cheeky Pint is back! Mark Zuckerberg @finkd and Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang came to the pub to discuss their new frontier model, Muse Wonder.
00:00:24 Muse’s breakout use cases
00:07:28 The model is the product
00:14:35 Muse Wonder
00:24:56 How frontier models are built
00:48:26 Betting $100B
01:07:21 Agentic commerce
01:19:34 OpenRouter
01:20:06 Beyond the smartphone
01:27:00 Funding
01:34:06 Why AI won’t be winner-take-all
01:40:46 Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)
02:08:11 Working for Mark Zuckerberg
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
"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
New!! "175% Growth, 120 Countries, Agents as Buyers: Stripe's CRO of AI on The New AI GTM Playbook"
youtu.be/rQbsKwl2wvY
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
A quick EU founder survey: eusurvey.vercel.app.
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
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.
I'm curious to read other stories from people who've scaled new businesses in Europe. (And if your experience has been positive, that's also useful to hear.) Feel free to email me: [email protected].
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
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.
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
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 @pally starts to make an impact here too shortly
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
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.
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
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
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
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.
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
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/
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
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
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
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.)
Stripe's Will Gaybrick: "Build everything"
Against an industry that sees agents as a way to cut costs, Stripe is using them to build more: agents wrote 30% of code in a week, global tax filing shipped in 1/3 the time the US version took, and after AI made sellers 20% more productive, Stripe hired even more sellers.
President of Technology & Business @gaybrick sits down with a16z's David George to cover why there's no one left for Stripe to copy, why checkout pages will disappear, how agents plus stablecoins make micropayments real, and why tokens are becoming a currency worth protecting like dollars.
00:00 Intro
01:00 From payments to 30 products
02:30 1 in 6 free trials abused
05:50 Win the startups, then win them again
09:40 Borrowing from Google, Apple, and Ford
14:30 Minions: 7K one-shot PRs a week
18:45 Building everything vs. cutting costs
26:00 Why timelines keep compressing
29:50 What replaces the checkout page
34:20 The case against $9.99 subscriptions
37:20 Stablecoins solve a political problem
41:35 Tempo, a payments-only blockchain
43:10 Tokens are money now
49:00 How Stripe scales taste
youtube.com/watch?v=P5iICDVn…
@gaybrick @DavidGeorge83
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
Adding Starlink to every UK train would be an incredible productivity boost 🛰️
Dec McLaughlin 🏴 retweeted
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.
