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Singleton: Stripe deployed some of the world's first production AI agent systems
“I was working at Stripe, as you mentioned, and we had the opportunity to put some of the very first AI agent systems in the world into production.”
David Singleton Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 3:59 Dreamer: the Agent OS for Everyone — David Singleton
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Singleton: Developers must optimize their CLIs for AI agent discovery
“I was chatting with folks at Stripe last week and saying, hey, you got to make the Stripe CLI actually tell agents what they can do on Stripe because that way they're going to use more stuff on Stripe. I think this is a real trend for the entire industry.”
David Singleton Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 41:52 Dreamer: the Agent OS for Everyone — David Singleton
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Migrating to Stripe Checkout increases average customer revenue by 10.5 percent
“What we've found, we've recently measured the difference between, so with a bunch of actual users who've migrated from a fairly vanilla integration where they, you know, built their own checkout flow to one of these surfaces to our payment element or to Stripe…”
David Singleton May 4, 2023 ▶ 28:48 Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
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Stripe automatically deploys engineer code changes to production within 45 minutes
“Every change that Stripe engineer submits once it's passed those tests, it actually ends up in production automatically over the course of the next 45 minutes or so.”
David Singleton May 4, 2023 ▶ 55:17 Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
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Singleton built an AI Engineer Conference schedule app in 25 minutes
“And I was able to build this yesterday morning. I did it between some meetings. I think I spent a total of 25 minutes of wall clock time on it. I did it over the course of a couple of hours.”
David Singleton Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 13:50 Dreamer: the Agent OS for Everyone — David Singleton
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Singleton predicts one or two dominant agentic commerce protocols will emerge
“You know, on Dreamer, we hope that folks will build tools that can make use of all of these things, but I'm sure that at a certain .1 or two will emerge as the winners, and then we'll be able to build, like, really deep support in it.”
David Singleton Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 29:22 Dreamer: the Agent OS for Everyone — David Singleton
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Stripe's API dedicates more codebase to edge cases than main flows
“There's actually more code in the jobs that serve the Stripe API to handle those edge cases than in the actual main flow.”
David Singleton May 4, 2023 ▶ 27:16 Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
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Stripe now processes as much volume as 2010's entire e-commerce industry
“Stripe today, like we move as much money as all of e-commerce was when Stripe got started.”
David Singleton May 4, 2023 ▶ 53:05 Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
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Stripe Atlas partnered with the IRS to issue EINs instantly
“Eventually we worked with the IRS to make it possible for But for us to issue those numbers much, much more quickly, like instantly as you sign up.”
David Singleton May 4, 2023 ▶ 13:50 Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
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Singleton: Stripe Co-Created Stripe Billing With Slack and Figma
“And when we got to starting the Stripe Billing product, we realized that there were a number of our existing users. These were companies like Figma and Slack. We were already using Stripe for payments, but had these subscriptions business models. And we figure…”
David Singleton May 4, 2023 ▶ 18:44 Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
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Singleton: Stripe's core product infrastructure is mostly implemented in Ruby
“For what it's worth at Stripe, we write a lot of code in Ruby. We write a lot of code in other languages like Java and TypeScript as well, but our kind of core infrastructure is mostly implemented in core product infrastructure, mostly implemented in Ruby.”
David Singleton May 4, 2023 ▶ 49:11 Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
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Stripe's test and CI environment is its largest distributed system
“In fact, our distributed change and test environment at Stripe is the biggest distributed system that we actually run.”
David Singleton May 4, 2023 ▶ 59:15 Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
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Stripe Connect originated from early marketplace integrations with Lyft and Shopify
“So the ideas behind Stripe Connect came from working with companies like Lyft and Shopify in the very early days. They were using Stripe for pay-ins, but we realized, oh, these companies are operating in these multi-sided marketplaces, and there's a ton of hea…”
David Singleton May 4, 2023 ▶ 1:20:54 Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
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Many Stripe employees work in entirely different roles than initially hired
“Very, very many people at Stripe today are doing a quite different job to the one that they joined for.”
David Singleton May 4, 2023 ▶ 11:36 Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
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