Dublin

“I would say Stripe broadly, Is in a pretty similar spot to where it was beforehand, which is most people go into an office. Like most people are, you know part of our San Francisco office or New York or Dublin or Singapore or wherever. And then we have a bunch…”

“We were going to open Dublin in 2012, but we shelved the idea because our retention metrics were not great. Our gross retention was, like, low seventies.”

“Three million ARR when we opened Dublin.”

“Before we opened the office, I ended up hiring a bunch of young dads who would show up at four a.m. In Cambridge. Because they wanted to get home at two p.m. To be with their kids, and we were like, let's validate that demand. So we were selling early in the m…”

“It's almost 20% of the entire country of Ireland's electricity are data centers, and they're almost all in Dublin.”

“So now every new data center in Dublin is getting a natural gas generator behind the meter so it can be flexible and, you know, avoid that contribution to system peak.”

“A couple of years ago, and I've stopped looking a couple of years ago, it was the same amount of CO two as all of Dublin, which is the capital of Ireland uses.”

“In opening remote offices, so at Facebook, I really helped open the Dublin, Austin, and Hyderabad offices, and sending a group of people from headquarters to For at least 12 months, to also include a office leader where people report remotely, I found really t…”