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Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · Y Combinator Jul 28, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 18:51 Sam Altman Uh, my co-founder, OpenAI, because I was a very early investor in Stripe when I was, like, I don't know, 22 or something, and they were, like, this was before they had, you know, like, real investors that could really help them, and they… 3 times in the scene

The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator Jun 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:40 Garry Tan Like you might start with Stripe Atlas, but right after that, like I better make a homepage

The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator Jun 10, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:53 Pedro Franceschi And the problem is with AI, I think you see, like look at Stripe, for example, Stripe early days was like literally an API.

How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot · Y Combinator May 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:44 Eric Ries And of course, we have companies like Stripe that are like stubbornly just refusing to go public because why should they?

Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator Apr 25, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 11:17 Amjad Masad Well, the cool thing about the, the world we're in right now, and it's very similar to developers, you know, I think the insight that a lot of YC dev tool companies has had, like, you know, Stripe, you know, PagerDuty, um, you, uh, you,…
  • ▶ 15:43 Amjad Masad We spent a lot of time partnering with companies, building those integrations, and now there's the, you know, what's happening with the skills, call it revolution, where, you know, companies are putting out skills and MCPs, and we just vet…
  • ▶ 17:30 Amjad Masad You know, Stripe got, you know, popular for this, you know, being really good on documentation.

How Stripe Built Their New Website · Y Combinator Apr 22, 2026 · 27 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Aaron Epstein Today, I am thrilled to welcome Stripe's Head of Design, Katie Dill, back to the show. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 0:30 Aaron Epstein I saw, along with everybody else, when you launched the new Stripe homepage, and I thought it would be amazing to have you on and kind of take us through the old site and, uh, things that you wanted to change about it and update, because I…
  • ▶ 2:50 Katie Dill But you were kind of only getting a glimpse of the product offering that Stripe provided. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:10 Aaron Epstein Um, and I think that's a testament to how Stripe has always been so far ahead of the game from a design perspective that you could have a site that's six years old. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:55 Aaron Epstein That where Stripe would actually be the right product for them too. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:40 Katie Dill Yeah, alright, so this next section is what we call our bento, and so this is probably the big area that's seeking to solve some of the problems I talked about earlier, about really expressing kind of like the scale of the product… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:40 Katie Dill Yeah, alright, so this next section is what we call our bento, and so this is probably the big area that's seeking to solve some of the problems I talked about earlier, about really expressing kind of like the scale of the product… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:05 Katie Dill Uh, billing is, you know, what we were talking about earlier about usage-based billing or, um, you know, could be fixed fee subscriptions, any number of these types of things are a lot more adjustable and, um, customizable to the…
  • ▶ 16:21 Katie Dill So this area is a place where we're, we're talking about our users, but we created these images so it brings together Stripe 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:11 Katie Dill Uh, I've worked at Stripe now for five years and I cannot even tell you how many different variants of a wave or gradient or gradient wave that I have seen and been a part of.
  • ▶ 30:17 Katie Dill What designers at Stripe endeavor to do are to create things that feel like they push the status quo forward.
  • ▶ 39:33 Aaron Epstein And testing and, you know, you talk about having the voice of the user and the perspective of the user in your head as you're designing, um, and part of what you do at Stripe, which you told us about last time, is, uh, walking the store. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:20 Katie Dill Intersects with each other's and how a user might go from, well, I use subscriptions and I use payments and I use tax.

Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites · Y Combinator Nov 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:09 Aaron Epstein Before that, he was a founding designer at Notion and a product designer at Stripe and Asana.

The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator Nov 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:28 David Paffenholz And so a few logos on this slide are kind of later stage or large stage growth companies, Stripe, OpenAI, and Anthropic, but really most series B and onwards companies are going to fit into this category.

The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator Jul 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:00 Arne Englander You know, there was a point, I remember, I actually remember this sort of, maybe two, three months into the company, uh, so we were working with Stripe as our payment provider, and one day they just shut us off, uh, because apparently…

Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen · Y Combinator Jul 25, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:49 Karri Saarinen I think these days, maybe a lot of startups look at, I don't know, Stripe or some, or Linear or some, some other company out there and they, 2 times in the scene

How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator Jul 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:48 Harj Taggar Stripe actually, in a sense, obviously it's payments, of course, it's a big market, but actually when they first started, it was like,

Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator Jun 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:56 Andrej Karpathy So, Vercel and Stripe, as an example, are early movers here, but there are a few more that I've seen already, and they offer their documentation in Markdown.

From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator Mar 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:04 Josh Reeves Um, it was, you know, the CEOs and founders of, you know, PayPal and Stripe and, you know, um, Mint and Instagram and
  • ▶ 17:06 Josh Reeves Patrick at Stripe was an angel investor.

Vibe Coding Is The Future · Y Combinator Mar 5, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 13:23 Harj Taggar My feeling is that many of the most successful companies, I would say, Stripe, Gusto are just two that really spring to my mind, as ones that really heavily leaned into the, actually, we just want people who are really productive with the… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:35 Garry Tan And so it sounds like the stripes of the world, they were ahead of the game and everyone has to hire engineers this way now.
  • ▶ 19:42 Harj Taggar It's kind of what I'm getting at with, where Stripe and Duster and these companies just knew that they didn't care if someone had fundamental CS knowledge, so it didn't make sense to screen them on that.
  • ▶ 28:11 Harj Taggar Patrick from Stripe is the same.

How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator Nov 26, 2024 · 8 mentions

How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator Nov 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:14 Sam Altman I heard he was really smart, and then I watched some video of his, and he's also, he's extremely smart, like, true, true, genuine genius and visionary, but also he has this incredible presence, and so I watched this video of his on YouTube…

The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ · Y Combinator Nov 1, 2024 · 1 mention

Why Design Matters: Lessons from Stripe, Lyft and Airbnb · Y Combinator Oct 16, 2024 · 22 mentions

  • ▶ 0:03 Aaron Epstein I'll be interviewing Katie Dill, Stripe's Head of Design. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 0:44 Katie Dill Well, thanks for being here at Stripe, and thanks for having me on. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:23 Katie Dill So for us, that's Stripe billing, that's the checkout, that's pulling together all of the various products that show up in our dashboard or in our consumer interfaces.
  • ▶ 1:38 Katie Dill Our branding, the books we design at Stripe Press, and then lastly, the website team at Stripe.com.
  • ▶ 1:45 Aaron Epstein Everybody watching this will probably be familiar with Stripe and Lyft and Airbnb and, you know, a number of other companies that you've worked at, um, and they're also known for having great design and a great user experience. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:30 Katie Dill Um, especially, you know, when you're, I, you know, absolutely understand that the, the need for urgency at a startup, but also like, you know, even Stripe is much, you know, a larger organization. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:39 Aaron Epstein Let's talk about design and your design process at Stripe.
  • ▶ 19:03 Katie Dill They'd be like, well, I'm on the connect team, and I'm on the design team. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:22 Katie Dill So they would be working in, you know, the Stripe 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:06 Aaron Epstein I think one of the things that I take away from this conversation is how deeply integrated the entire company is with your users. 3 times in the scene

How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start? · Y Combinator Oct 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:21 Garry Tan It might be hard to imagine, but the founders of companies like Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox at one point or another

Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Reviews Startup Websites · Y Combinator Oct 1, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:04 Aaron Epstein Today, I'm going to be joined by Katie Dill, who is the head of design at Stripe, and we're going to be taking a look at a bunch of user submitted websites to give them feedback on how they can improve their designs. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:10 Katie Dill Like, so for example, at Stripe, like,
  • ▶ 20:47 Aaron Epstein Um, and thank you to Stripe also for hosting us here.

Enterprise Sales | Startup School · Y Combinator Jul 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:07 Pete Koomen The Collison brothers famously charged more for Stripe in the beginning than their competition did.

Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale · Y Combinator May 30, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 10:47 Nicolas Dessaigne Um, one, one of the stories I remember that, uh, give me a good impression was the story of Stripe. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:35 Harj Taggar And I feel like this is partly why we push the companies to have such big growth targets is one way investors tell apart what's a consultancy or a small business from like a startup that could be Stripe or Airbnb one day is like, can it…

B2B Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator Dec 15, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 11:02 Tom Blomfield It was a recurring payments company, very similar to Stripe. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:03 Tom Blomfield And that's what gives very sticky businesses like Stripe, like GoCardus, like PayPal, this exponential growth.

How to Apply And Succeed at Y Combinator | Startup School · Y Combinator May 12, 2023 · 1 mention

Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator Apr 21, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:14 Diana Hu Doing things that don't scale, a classic example is with Stripe. 2 times in the scene

The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator Feb 9, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 9:42 Kat Mignalek So for example, Paisy, which is a YC alum, can describe themselves as Stripe for former Soviet Union countries.
  • ▶ 20:25 Kat Mignalek Stripe has always been great at engaging with the community each time a new product launches. 3 times in the scene

How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School · Y Combinator Dec 29, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:48 Gustaf Alströmer As you can see, some of the early ones like Amplitude, Stripe, Front, they were doing up on sales emails, just like the one we described to get started.

Startup Business Models and Pricing | Startup School · Y Combinator Dec 15, 2022 · 11 mentions

How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School · Y Combinator Nov 17, 2022 · 7 mentions

Y Combinator Is Back In Person · Y Combinator Jun 8, 2022 · 1 mention

Don't Make These Hiring Mistakes · Y Combinator May 19, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 12:01 unnamed speaker I remember Stripe being very similar to that. 3 times in the scene

Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Jan 19, 2022 · 19 mentions

Should You Follow Your Passion? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Jan 5, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:11 Dalton Caldwell Running something that's working where you're getting customers and every day you see your like Stripe account inching up where you're making thousands or tens of thousands of dollars is awesome.

A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator Apr 3, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:28 Austen Allred Um, I, I mean, I look at some of the classic companies like, you know, look at the YC companies, the Airbnbs, the Stripe.

Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator Feb 15, 2019 · 1 mention

Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator Nov 20, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 58:43 Andrew Kortina He was particularly, um, I think, amenable to Venmo because Braintree had, it was, Braintree is another company similar to Stripe where they have, they do credit card processing for all these different businesses. 2 times in the scene

Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator Nov 14, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:37 Craig Cannon We had Cortland Allen from Indie Hackers on the podcast a while ago, and now that's within Stripe.

After PMF: People, Customers, Sales by Mathilde Collin · Y Combinator Oct 24, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 13:49 Mathilde Collin So at least I can tell you, um, one piece of advice that I got from Patrick Collison, the CEO of Stripe, um, that I thought was super insightful.
  • ▶ 50:39 Mathilde Collin One thing I did that I think was a great idea was, so implementing Stripe for us took some time, and so, but I wanted to know if people were willing to pay for the product before we had Stripe implemented. 2 times in the scene

The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator Oct 24, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:17 Paul Buchheit So, like, that was how, like, the very early Stripe installs, Patrick Collison would show up and integrate Stripe into your code.

A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator Oct 18, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:32 Elad Gil And then it's interwoven with interviews with, um, you know, Sam from YC, and, uh, Claire Hughes Johnson from Stripe, and Marc Andreessen, and Reid Hoffman, and, uh, Ruchi Sanghvi, and a bunch of other people around their experiences…

Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator Oct 16, 2018 · 6 mentions

Fundraising Fundamentals By Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator Oct 10, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 33:17 Geoff Ralston Incorporation, like you can do an incorporation using Atlas, if you're international, from Stripe, sort of instantly.
  • ▶ 33:17 Geoff Ralston Incorporation, like you can do an incorporation using Atlas, if you're international, from Stripe, sort of instantly.

A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders · Y Combinator Oct 3, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:34 Elizabeth Iorns Um, things like Stripe and things like, um, AWS has made it so much easier for people to create companies, and I think in the science space we're, we're starting to see that, so obviously science exchange is, you know, one way to do that,…

Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator Oct 3, 2018 · 38 mentions

  • ▶ 0:02 Adora Cheung Um, so Patrick is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:00 Patrick Collison Um, but the other reason for us was, uh, you know, we would suggest to somebody they, they use Stripe, or they switch to Stripe, whatever, and, you know, invariably the response is, oh yeah, sure, that sounds awesome, um, but, you know, it…
  • ▶ 3:47 Adora Cheung Um, so, so Stripe now today, I mean, you've come a long way since back then. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:50 Patrick Collison Well, he, uh, the, uh, Tommy, my, my, uh, youngest sibling, uh, he's, he's sort of quite a bit younger than myself and John, and so, um, uh, you know, John is almost, um, uh, uh, or is approximately two, two years younger than I am, um,… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:15 Patrick Collison So just, you know, to give you some examples, ah, we had a chat room, ah, ah, for sort of providing support, ah, when people were integrating Stripe, um, and it was, it was actually a public chat room, which kind of had some downsides,… 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:58 Patrick Collison Kind of one line high sort of text input, um, but we had placeholder text in it, uh, to sort of try to prime people to, to tell us things, uh, and so it had, uh, you know, my, uh, my favorite part of, uh, of Stripe is ellipsis, and, you… 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:58 Patrick Collison Um, I, I, I see this in a non sort of false modesty, or, or, I don't, I don't mean to be kind of artificially self-deprecating, but, um, uh, sort of for almost anything that Stripe has to do, there are sort of people who are, who are, um,… 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:07 Patrick Collison Um, uh, and we'd never heard of him, and we hadn't heard of most people in Silicon Valley, um, but he'd Facebook messaged us, like, very early on asking to invest in Stripe, um, and I think John didn't know who's this random guy, um, and…
  • ▶ 34:31 Patrick Collison You know, you're not necessarily like Stripe, where you're kind of in it for various reasons for, for some multiple years, um, and so it may not last very long. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:57 Adora Cheung Um, I've heard you said, speaking of hiring people, I've heard you said, you know, the key qualities that you look for in a future Stripe employee is intellectually honest, um, cares a great deal, and just loves getting things done, which… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:58 Adora Cheung Um, so riding on the same theme, you know, as Stripe grows, you strike me as a company that does the opposite of most companies, which as they get bigger, they just slow down and they get less innovative, but for you guys, and it's hard to… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:58 Adora Cheung Um, so riding on the same theme, you know, as Stripe grows, you strike me as a company that does the opposite of most companies, which as they get bigger, they just slow down and they get less innovative, but for you guys, and it's hard to… 2 times in the scene
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