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 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).

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

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)

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LLMs know general, though sometimes out-of-date stuff (thanks pre-training!), but you often want to: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

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. ⤵️

https://twitter.com/atlas/status/1682085811574145025

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.

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)

💌
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".)

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.

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.