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.
Dec 22, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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)
Sep 19, 2022 • 12 tweets • 9 min read
💌
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".)
Feb 19, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I’m looking to hire the most hustling, specific, positive person, who can understand both people and systems — no specific background required. Your goal is to make it easier for our teams to bring Stripe to new countries.
You will materially increase the GDP of the internet.
You must have A++ attention to detail and be both friendly but exacting in terms of project management and technical thinking of how to help make the world’s financial systems integrate into our APIs and work with many domains inside and outside the building to unblock progress.
Jun 19, 2019 • 39 tweets • 11 min read
Hello world. A few reflections on my first year at Stripe and a bit on my first ten years building stuff.
I’ve joked that joining Stripe is my first rational career choice. 4 quick stories.
