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@jeff_weinstein
Oct 20 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
To: founders@
Subject: SAFEs

You can now send, sign, and track SAFEs in a few clicks, right from the @atlas dashboard.

Sincerely,
The Stripe team Image
Business money can only come from three places:

- cash from operations (revenue - costs)
- debit financed from loans
- equity fundraised from investors

In addition to our revenue (Stripe Payments) and loan (Stripe Capital) products, we want to help founders raise (via SAFEs).
We have major plans for making fundraising easier, faster, and hopefully more fun—globally—and would love your feedback and feature suggestions. Big and small ones, please.

jweinstein@stripe.com or DM
Learn more: docs.stripe.com/atlas/fundrais…
For long-time watchers, yes, this was our sixth Atlas tab revealed. (What should be the seventh…?)

h/t one of my favorite videos/classes on the topic: harrisonmetal.com/library/financ…

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Sep 29
Hi! We have three big agentic commerce announcements to share. @stripe is:

1/ powering Instant Checkout in ChatGPT
2/ releasing an open standard: Agentic Commerce Protocol, codeveloped with @OpenAI
3/ shipping an API for agentic payments: Shared Payment Tokens

Let's dive in ⤵️
Purchase where you prompt. Millions of people can now shop through ChatGPT, powered by @stripe.

- It’s fun to discover products via LLMs
- You can buy directly in chat from @etsy, soon @shopify, then more
- Use a saved payment method (I like @link!) or new one
- Buy in one tap
It's built on the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) by @stripe and @OpenAI

- An open standard for programmatic flows between buyers, AI agents, and businesses
- Make your checkout agent-ready
- Works with any agent, commerce platform, payment processor

agenticcommerce.devImage
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Mar 11
Today, @OpenAI launched their Agents SDK developer framework.

Until now, agents have mostly been chat-oriented (chat in, chat out), but agents will increasingly be action-oriented (data in, action out).

We, @stripe, would love to show you a few financial agents we’ve built! ⤵️
But, first, what is OpenAI Agents SDK?

It is now easy to build *multi*-agent workflows, with some nice features:

- Handoffs: Agents call each other and pass along context
- Guardrails: Validate inputs/outputs
- Tools: Files, Web Search, and Computer Use (same tech as Operator)
Last November, eons ago in AI-time, we launched our agent toolkit to help LLMs use @stripe. It is now being downloaded thousands of times per week.

Today, we've updated our toolkit to work with OpenAI’s framework.

📺 Here’s a few Stripe agents we've built (with sample code):
Read 8 tweets
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Feb 21
1/ Agents and LLMs can now understand, query, and execute @stripe, with our new MCP server.

Boot it up with a single, copy-and-pasteable line in any tool, like your AI IDE or client. Let's hop in! ⤵️ Image
2/ Okay, MCP, what's the big deal?

LLMs know general, though sometimes out-of-date stuff (thanks pre-training!), but you often want to:

- understand latest, official info ()
- query your own data (your customers)
- execute API calls (create products)docs.stripe.com
3/ Along comes MCP (Model Context Protocol), open source from @AnthropicAI.

MCP is a standard way for any application to connect to an LLM — "a USB-C port for AI apps". LLMs now can *find* and *use* third party APIs and services.

modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
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Jul 20, 2023
I'm so excited to cross “File an 83(b)” off every founder's to-do list.

No printers. No pens. No post office. No missed deadlines. No worries. ⤵️

You start a company and your founder friends yell: “OMG FILE YOUR 83B!”

Why?

Imagine your startup grows to $100M as your shares vest (wahoo!) and you're now in the top income bracket—you could save *several million dollars* in personal income taxes.
How does an 83(b) work?

The US wants to encourage entrepreneurship, so the IRS lets you "elect" to pay tax on your unvested shares upfront (when the value is likely low), so then:

- You won't owe any income tax as shares vest
- You only owe capital gains tax later if you sell
Read 9 tweets
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Dec 22, 2022
Recently we made it possible for teenagers (13+) to start a US company from anywhere in the world using @stripe @atlas.

Already *50* teenagers have started a company. Here's a lil vignette of what the youth are up to (hint, it's awesome):
they're tackling climate change... 🌲

- eco-friendly vertical hydroponic hardware (Istanbul)
- marketplace for renewable energy devices (Delaware)
- breathable sneakers (Texas)
they're building with AI… 🤖

- pixel art game with generative art (Pennsylvania)
- chatbot tutor teaching science (Florida)
- photo app that smartly organizes albums (California)
Read 8 tweets
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Sep 19, 2022
💌
to: founders
cc: internet
subject: [changelog] @stripe @atlas

We’ve made a bunch of improvements to starting an internet company:

- Company name search
- Visual cap table
- Sign docs with one click
- ETAs
- Faster EINs
- Pre-filled 83(b)
- Free payments
- Perks
- More access
🔍 Company name search

Choosing your company name is fun! Using antiquated government sites to see if it’s taken… not fun.

Instantly see if your company name is available with our new built-in name checker.

(We've added more cool suffixes too, like "Society" or "Institute".)
🥧 Visualize your equity

Accurately model the impact of founder ownership and a custom equity pool with our interactive cap table builder (w/pie charts!).

No lawyer necessary to issue founder shares or create a pool. Manage your cap table with our partners @pulley or @cartainc.
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