Weinstein: Stripe Atlas automates company creation into a single click
Jeff Weinstein · Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead) · Jul 11, 2024 · at 1:43:16
Jeff Weinstein, product lead at Stripe, explains the new end-to-end automation of Stripe Atlas, including handling IRS 83(b) elections and bank setup.
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“When this podcast airs, I guess today it will be true that when you go to start a company on Atlas, it will just be a single click. You go to type in your friends' names, how, what the name of the company will be. It'll tell you if it's available automatically or not. You can split the company up 50, 50 or whatever you want to do, fill out a few things and you click go. And then like a burrito coming to you. Like a pizza tracker. We will just handle all of the downstream activities that used to be, hey, remember to come back in and purchase your shares. Why am I purchasing my shares? I'm just getting started. Why am I writing a check for 10 dollars and putting it into a bank account that I can't even open yet, and then I have to wait for that to be done to get the A.P.L.X. Done. All of those steps are now just handled in the background so that we can get you ready for business In a day or two.”
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