schema: stripe-history/appearances/v1
appearances:
  - id: appearance-2026-08-will-gaybrick-a16z
    occurred_at: 2026-08-17
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2026-08-17
    title: Tokens Are the New Dollars
    venue: a16z
    series: The a16z Show
    participants:
      - name: Will Gaybrick
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: President of Product and Business
    media: [podcast, video, transcript]
    duration_seconds: 3228
    duration_precision: exact
    transcript:
      availability: automatic
      language: en
      source_id: source-523815a4d8be2b7368b9
    topics: [ai, company-building, minions, product-strategy, agentic-commerce, stablecoins, model-tokens]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2015-2026]
    significance: Will Gaybrick gives a first-person account of how Stripe is using AI to increase product output, reorganizing work around founder-like agency, and preparing its financial infrastructure for agentic commerce, stablecoins, and model-token economics.
    digest:
      gist: Stripe president Will Gaybrick describes AI as a reason to expand what a company builds rather than mainly reduce headcount. Stripe is redesigning its organization and delivery systems around more capable engineers and one-shot coding agents, while preparing its payments stack for agentic commerce, stablecoin settlement, and software agents that consume models and services. Cheaper software creation raises output only if product review, pricing, sales, and other downstream systems can absorb it.
      ideas:
        - title: Widen the roadmap
          detail: Stripe treats agentic coding as a way to work through accumulated user needs and create more products, not merely lower engineering cost.
        - title: Create founder-like agency
          detail: More productive engineers need smaller teams, clearer ownership, and fewer centralized processes if their code is to reach users quickly.
        - title: Measure autonomous work at the merge boundary
          detail: Stripe Minions are one-shot agents whose pull requests still pass CI and human review, making accepted output more informative than prompt or session counts.
        - title: Rebuild commerce around agents
          detail: Checkout, delegation, fraud, payments, stablecoins, and model-token infrastructure must change when software agents initiate purchases and machines buy services from machines.
    source_ids: [source-523815a4d8be2b7368b9]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2026-05-patrick-collison-replit
    occurred_at: 2026-05-21
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2026-05-21
    title: The Best Time in History to Start a Company
    venue: Replit
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Co-founder and CEO
    media: [video, transcript]
    duration_seconds: 2111
    duration_precision: exact
    transcript:
      availability: automatic
      language: en
      source_id: source-119db9dd4efb34c354fa
    topics: [ai, entrepreneurship, company-creation, software, internet-economy]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2026]
    significance: Patrick uses current Stripe formation data to explain the acceleration in new company creation, then connects AI-assisted software development to smaller teams, faster revenue, and new entrepreneurial opportunities.
    source_ids: [source-119db9dd4efb34c354fa]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2026-05-patrick-john-collison-friedman-gross
    occurred_at: 2026-05-19
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2026-05-19
    title: Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross in conversation with John and Patrick Collison
    venue: Stripe
    participants:
      - name: John Collison
        role: speaker
        stripe_role: Co-founder and President
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: speaker
        stripe_role: Co-founder and CEO
    media: [video, transcript]
    duration_seconds: 3358
    duration_precision: exact
    transcript:
      availability: automatic
      language: en
      source_id: source-18b5f3a0d6c6c83811f7
    topics: [ai, company-building, software, product-strategy, entrepreneurship]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2026]
    significance: John and Patrick join Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross for a first-person discussion of how AI changes software creation, company formation, organizational design, and Stripe's product environment.
    source_ids: [source-18b5f3a0d6c6c83811f7]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2026-05-john-collison-odd-lots
    occurred_at: 2026-05-16
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2026-05-16
    title: How agentic commerce will reshape the internet
    venue: Bloomberg Odd Lots
    participants:
      - name: John Collison
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Co-founder and President
    media: [podcast, video, transcript]
    duration_seconds: 2975
    duration_precision: exact
    transcript:
      availability: automatic
      language: en
      source_id: source-98566fabeed1b3474821
    topics: [agentic-commerce, payments, stablecoins, internet-economy, product-strategy]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2026]
    significance: John explains how autonomous buyers alter discovery, checkout, delegated authority, fraud, and settlement, providing Stripe's current view of the infrastructure required for agentic commerce.
    source_ids: [source-98566fabeed1b3474821]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2026-04-patrick-john-collison-a16z
    occurred_at: 2026-04-28
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2026-04-28
    title: Stripe's growth, agent commerce, and the future of software
    venue: a16z
    series: The a16z Show
    participants:
      - name: John Collison
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Co-founder and President
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Co-founder and CEO
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [growth, agentic-commerce, stablecoins, software, employee-liquidity]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2026]
    significance: John and Patrick discuss Stripe's reported growth, employee tender, agent commerce, stablecoins, and the shift from mass-produced software toward bespoke systems generated when needed.
    source_ids: [source-c8cf9fc9a738a7673ab5]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2026-02-patrick-collison-a16z
    occurred_at: 2026-02-20
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2026-02-20
    title: Stripe's early choices, Smalltalk, and what comes after coding
    venue: a16z
    series: The a16z Show
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Co-founder and CEO
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [programming-languages, early-company, software, ai, company-building]
    historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2026]
    significance: Patrick revisits Stripe's early technical choices and Smalltalk roots while considering how AI changes programming, software architecture, and the work of building enduring technology companies.
    source_ids: [source-3e4c405e9bd479571d83]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2025-11-will-gaybrick-the-peel
    occurred_at: 2025-11-13
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2025-11-13
    title: "Inside Stripe: Stablecoins, AI, and (not) going public"
    venue: The Peel
    participants:
      - name: Will Gaybrick
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: President of Product and Business
    media: [podcast, video, transcript]
    duration_seconds: 5769
    duration_precision: exact
    transcript:
      availability: automatic
      language: en
      source_id: source-ef5f15ce3644987cd0d2
    topics: [stablecoins, ai, product-strategy, organization-design, public-markets]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2015-2025]
    significance: Will gives a long first-person account of Stripe's product expansion, stablecoin strategy, AI work, organization, capital allocation, and decision to remain private.
    source_ids: [source-ef5f15ce3644987cd0d2]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2025-07-patrick-collison-cursor
    occurred_at: 2025-07-17
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2025-07-17
    title: Programming languages, AI, and Stripe's biggest engineering decisions
    venue: Cursor
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Co-founder and CEO
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [programming-languages, ai, engineering, software-architecture, company-building]
    historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2025]
    significance: Patrick discusses the programming-language ideas behind his early work, Stripe's major architectural decisions and rewrites, his use of AI, and the relationship between software and human organizations.
    source_ids: [source-6c270caf7a0f7aea8142]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2025-06-patrick-collison-hard-fork
    occurred_at: 2025-06-27
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2025-06-27
    title: Patrick Collison at Hard Fork Live
    venue: Hard Fork Live
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Co-founder and CEO
    media: [podcast, video, transcript]
    duration_seconds: 6598
    duration_precision: exact
    transcript:
      availability: automatic
      language: en
      source_id: source-af973a63a7068c0ccff9
    topics: [agentic-commerce, biotechnology, long-term-thinking, payments, progress]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2025]
    significance: Patrick connects Stripe's approach to long-duration company building with agentic commerce and his work in biotechnology, including the Arc Institute and a broader case for institutional ambition.
    source_ids: [source-af973a63a7068c0ccff9]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2025-05-patrick-john-collison-sessions-ama
    occurred_at: 2025-05
    date_precision: month
    title: AMA with Patrick and John Collison
    venue: Stripe Sessions
    series: Sessions 2025
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: speaker
      - name: John Collison
        role: speaker
    media: [video, transcript]
    transcript:
      availability: official
      language: en
      source_id: source-7db75f16638fc07f166c
    topics: [stablecoins, payment-methods, ai, product-strategy, company-building]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2025]
    significance: Patrick and John answer customer questions about stablecoin adoption, local payment methods, AI, product strategy, and what they would change if they were building Stripe again.
    source_ids: [source-7db75f16638fc07f166c]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2025-03-patrick-collison-congress-testimony
    occurred_at: 2025-03-11
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2025-03-11
    title: Testimony on payment stablecoins and central bank digital currency
    venue: United States House Committee on Financial Services
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: witness
    media: [testimony, transcript]
    transcript:
      availability: official
      language: en
      source_id: source-bbf6b0fb0b8942bc569f
    topics: [stablecoins, payments, regulation, bridge, payment-volume]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2010-2025]
    significance: Patrick's written congressional testimony gives a first-person account of Stripe's founding, scale, payment-method coverage, Bridge acquisition, and policy case for stablecoins.
    source_ids: [source-18cef128fcb5c9083568, source-bbf6b0fb0b8942bc569f]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2025-02-john-collison-squawk-pod
    occurred_at: 2025-02-28
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2025-02-28
    title: Stripe CEO John Collison
    venue: Squawk Pod
    participants:
      - name: John Collison
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Co-founder and President
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [growth, valuation, private-markets, payments, company-building]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2025]
    significance: John discusses Stripe's scale, private valuation, long operating horizon, and the company's position in payments with Andrew Ross Sorkin in a rare current interview.
    source_ids: [source-d5562f80014ab418430b]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2024-09-will-gaybrick-logan-bartlett
    occurred_at: 2024-09-20
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2024-09-20
    title: Capital allocation, organization design, AI, and global growth
    venue: The Logan Bartlett Show
    participants:
      - name: Will Gaybrick
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: President of Product and Business
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [capital-allocation, organization-design, ai, global-growth, product-strategy]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2015-2024]
    significance: Will traces his path from investor to Stripe executive and explains how the company approaches capital allocation, product organization, AI, and international growth.
    source_ids: [source-39cb086a5372e02b17bc]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2024-04-patrick-john-collison-sessions-ama
    occurred_at: 2024-04-24
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2024-04-24
    title: AMA with Patrick and John Collison
    venue: Stripe Sessions
    series: Sessions 2024
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: speaker
      - name: John Collison
        role: speaker
    media: [video, transcript]
    duration_seconds: 2700
    duration_precision: approximate
    transcript:
      availability: official
      language: en
      source_id: source-001e51b689b259d0b4e3
    topics: [auctomatic, company-building, craft, culture, climate, ai, product-strategy]
    historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2024]
    significance: Patrick and John revisit Auctomatic, explain Stripe's emphasis on craft and long-duration work, and discuss climate, AI, competitive learning, and product strategy in an official transcript.
    source_ids: [source-001e51b689b259d0b4e3]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2024-04-patrick-collison-berkeley-haas
    occurred_at: 2024-04
    date_precision: month
    published_at: 2024-04-30
    title: Patrick Collison on founding a company that should have already existed
    venue: UC Berkeley Haas
    series: Dean's Speaker Series
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
    media: [video, transcript]
    duration_seconds: 3600
    duration_precision: approximate
    transcript:
      availability: official
      language: en
      source_id: source-ca9f69ba263dbc27bda3
    topics: [founding, startup-school, early-company, culture, writing]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2011, stripe-2012-2024]
    significance: Patrick gives a detailed first-person account of the 2009 Startup School walk, John proposing the prototype, the first US trip, early company hardship, and Stripe's writing culture.
    source_ids: [source-ca9f69ba263dbc27bda3]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2024-02-patrick-collison-dwarkesh
    occurred_at: 2024-02-21
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2024-02-21
    title: Patrick Collison on craft, APIs, and Stripe's future
    venue: Dwarkesh Podcast
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
    media: [podcast, video, transcript]
    transcript:
      availability: official
      language: en
      source_id: source-51a0e1edbe8fc1ce9d5a
    topics: [company-building, payment-volume, progress-studies, arc-institute, stripe-climate, api-design, culture]
    historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2024]
    significance: Patrick gives a long first-person account of Stripe's history, processing scale, API design, company culture, Stripe Climate, Arc Institute, and how he and John divide their work.
    source_ids: [source-51a0e1edbe8fc1ce9d5a]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2023-11-patrick-john-collison-social-radars
    occurred_at: 2023-11-14
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2023-11-14
    title: Patrick and John Collison on building Stripe
    venue: The Social Radars
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
      - name: John Collison
        role: interviewee
    media: [podcast]
    duration_seconds: 4294
    duration_precision: exact
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [founding, y-combinator, company-building, product-strategy, culture]
    historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2023]
    significance: The brothers jointly recount Stripe's path from a two-person project through its later scale, adding a shared first-person perspective on the company's founding and development.
    source_ids: [source-d8e4c6cb20568d496b94]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2023-10-patrick-john-collison-colossus
    occurred_at: 2023-10-17
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2023-10-17
    title: A Business State of Mind
    venue: Invest Like the Best
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
      - name: John Collison
        role: interviewee
    media: [podcast, transcript]
    transcript:
      availability: official
      language: en
      source_id: source-1278271efc6181fee94f
    topics: [company-building, culture, strategy, capital-allocation, internet-economy]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2023]
    significance: Patrick and John discuss Stripe's strategy, culture, attention to detail, capital allocation, and the internet economy together in a long-form primary interview.
    source_ids: [source-1278271efc6181fee94f]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2023-10-john-collison-stripe-ai-day
    occurred_at: 2023-10-06
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2023-10-06
    title: Arthur Mensch and John Collison at Stripe AI Day Paris
    venue: Stripe AI Day Paris
    participants:
      - name: John Collison
        role: speaker
        stripe_role: Co-founder and President
    media: [video, transcript]
    duration_seconds: 2330
    duration_precision: exact
    transcript:
      availability: automatic
      language: en
      source_id: source-daf244691067ecfd0a84
    topics: [ai, machine-learning, software, entrepreneurship, product-strategy]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2023]
    significance: John discusses the AI company landscape with Mistral co-founder Arthur Mensch at a Stripe event, connecting model development, startup formation, and the infrastructure needs of fast-growing AI businesses.
    source_ids: [source-daf244691067ecfd0a84]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2023-08-claire-hughes-johnson-newcomer
    occurred_at: 2023-08-08
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2023-08-08
    title: Scaling People with Claire Hughes Johnson
    venue: Newcomer
    participants:
      - name: Claire Hughes Johnson
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Corporate Officer and Adviser
    media: [article]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [operations, organization-design, hiring, management, company-building]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2014-2021]
    significance: Claire explains the operating systems, hiring practices, management expectations, and organizational mechanisms she used while helping Stripe scale from an early company into a global organization.
    source_ids: [source-a83d235b649d61ebd04a]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2023-05-claire-hughes-johnson-stanford
    occurred_at: 2023-05-24
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2023-05-24
    title: Scaling Operations and People
    venue: Stanford eCorner
    series: Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
    participants:
      - name: Claire Hughes Johnson
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Corporate Officer and Adviser
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [operations, people, management, culture, company-building]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2014-2021]
    significance: Claire turns her experience scaling Stripe's operations and people systems into practical guidance on management, culture, organizational design, and the transition from startup improvisation to durable operating practice.
    source_ids: [source-57a7fe4d5d7acd711d7b]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2023-05-patrick-collison-minor-consult
    occurred_at: 2023-05-15
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2023-05-15
    title: Innovating e-commerce and accelerating biomedical research
    venue: The Minor Consult
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Co-founder and CEO
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [founding, ecommerce, biomedical-research, arc-institute, progress]
    historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2023]
    significance: Patrick recounts his path into entrepreneurship and Stripe while explaining why he helped create Arc Institute and how stronger institutions could accelerate biomedical research.
    source_ids: [source-d09d6a2687fa0f13d64c]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2023-05-david-singleton-lenny
    occurred_at: 2023-05-04
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2023-05-04
    title: Building a culture of excellence
    venue: Lenny's Podcast
    participants:
      - name: David Singleton
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Chief Technology Officer
    media: [podcast, video, transcript]
    duration_seconds: 5399
    duration_precision: exact
    transcript:
      availability: automatic
      language: en
      source_id: source-644e7df552ad28028b3a
    topics: [engineering, culture, product-development, quality, management]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2021-2023]
    significance: David gives a detailed account of Stripe's engineering culture, product quality bar, user feedback loops, leadership expectations, and mechanisms for keeping technical teams focused on customer outcomes.
    source_ids: [source-644e7df552ad28028b3a]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2023-03-claire-hughes-johnson-grit
    occurred_at: 2023-03-06
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2023-03-06
    title: Scaling People
    venue: Grit
    participants:
      - name: Claire Hughes Johnson
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Former Chief Operating Officer
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [management, hiring, operations, leadership, company-building]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2014-2021]
    significance: Claire explains the frameworks she developed while scaling Stripe, including how leaders establish operating principles, diagnose organizational problems, and build management systems without losing speed.
    source_ids: [source-9dee161b28ef4003aeb3]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2023-03-claire-hughes-johnson-lenny
    occurred_at: 2023-03-05
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2023-03-05
    title: Lessons from scaling Stripe
    venue: Lenny's Podcast
    participants:
      - name: Claire Hughes Johnson
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Former Chief Operating Officer
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [operations, management, hiring, culture, performance]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2014-2021]
    significance: Claire describes the management infrastructure behind Stripe's growth, including goal setting, hiring, performance systems, feedback, and the operating cadences needed as a company moves through successive stages of scale.
    source_ids: [source-34e9256f6b05d1c012cb]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2023-02-david-singleton-saastr
    occurred_at: 2023-02-22
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2023-02-22
    title: Extreme Product Design
    venue: SaaStr
    participants:
      - name: David Singleton
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Chief Technology Officer
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [product-design, user-research, engineering, quality, product-development]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2021-2023]
    significance: David explains how Stripe turns close user observation into product and engineering decisions, arguing for unusually direct feedback loops and a quality bar grounded in what customers actually do.
    source_ids: [source-ff6b00bcb15ca05ca7f4]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2023-02-patrick-collison-greymatter
    occurred_at: 2023-02-14
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2023-02-14
    title: Micro Pessimism, Macro Optimism
    venue: Greymatter
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Co-founder and CEO
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [company-building, economic-outlook, strategy, startups, long-term-thinking]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2023]
    significance: Patrick discusses how Stripe and its users navigate a difficult economic cycle while maintaining a long-term view of internet business formation, technological progress, and the opportunity for new companies.
    source_ids: [source-4cf5bde77c3a4330d227]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2022-07-david-singleton-seedcamp
    occurred_at: 2022-07-13
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2022-07-13
    title: Technology innovation, customers, and the CTO role
    venue: This Much I Know
    series: The Seedcamp Podcast
    participants:
      - name: David Singleton
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Chief Technology Officer
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [engineering, customers, innovation, leadership, product-development]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2021-2022]
    significance: David describes the CTO role at Stripe, the company's customer-centered approach to technical innovation, and the leadership practices required to connect engineering investment with useful products.
    source_ids: [source-15f3382443f13e368075]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2022-06-john-collison-david-mcwilliams
    occurred_at: 2022-06-20
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2022-06-20
    title: The future of the internet economy
    venue: The David McWilliams Podcast
    participants:
      - name: John Collison
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Co-founder and President
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [internet-economy, innovation, entrepreneurship, payments, global-growth]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2022]
    significance: John connects Stripe's mission and product development to broader changes in internet business formation, innovation, globalization, and the economic conditions facing entrepreneurs.
    source_ids: [source-6321e360d21ebafc1539]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2021-10-mike-clayville-grit
    occurred_at: 2021-10-11
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2021-10-11
    title: Building Tornado Companies
    venue: Grit
    participants:
      - name: Mike Clayville
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Chief Revenue Officer
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [sales, growth, leadership, organization-design, enterprise]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2020-2021]
    significance: Mike explains how Stripe was building its revenue organization for rapid enterprise growth, including leadership, go-to-market design, hiring, and the operating demands of a fast-scaling company.
    source_ids: [source-28538b94e9867ad8ddea]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2021-05-claire-hughes-johnson-angels
    occurred_at: 2021-05-10
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2021-05-10
    title: Claire Hughes Johnson, COO of Stripe
    venue: "The #ANGELS Podcast"
    participants:
      - name: Claire Hughes Johnson
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Chief Operating Officer
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [operations, leadership, hiring, culture, company-building]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2014-2021]
    significance: Claire reflects on joining Stripe early, building its operating function, developing leaders and culture, and scaling the company across products, geographies, and organizational stages.
    source_ids: [source-472eb2b12343ba3fa8e5]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2020-06-john-collison-colossus
    occurred_at: 2020-06-16
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2020-06-16
    title: Growing the Internet Economy
    venue: Invest Like the Best
    participants:
      - name: John Collison
        role: interviewee
    media: [podcast, transcript]
    transcript:
      availability: official
      language: en
      source_id: source-4d80199395399e9e47d8
    topics: [internet-economy, writing, conglomerates, company-building, governance]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2020]
    significance: John discusses Stripe's mission, the internet economy, writing, industrial conglomerates, and company governance in a long-form interview with a complete publisher transcript.
    source_ids: [source-4d80199395399e9e47d8]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2018-12-patrick-collison-tim-ferriss
    occurred_at: 2018-12-24
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2018-12-24
    title: Patrick Collison on books, Auctomatic, Stripe, and technological progress
    venue: The Tim Ferriss Show
    series: Episode 353
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
    media: [podcast, transcript]
    transcript:
      availability: official
      language: en
      source_id: source-7365200928b2c76a48b7
    topics: [auctomatic, founding, books, learning, progress-studies, company-building]
    historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2018]
    significance: Patrick gives an unusually detailed account of his early programming, Auctomatic, Stripe's origin, reading practice, recruiting, and interest in technological progress.
    source_ids: [source-7365200928b2c76a48b7]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2018-05-patrick-collison-knowledge-project
    occurred_at: 2018-05-02
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2018-05-02
    title: Earning Your Stripes
    venue: The Knowledge Project
    series: Episode 32
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Co-founder and CEO
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [founding, company-building, decision-making, learning, payments]
    historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2018]
    significance: Patrick gives a broad account of Stripe's origin and growth while discussing decision-making, learning, organizational quality, and the habits he uses to build a long-duration company.
    source_ids: [source-5abe9c3805865ebd263c]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2018-03-patrick-collison-times-tech
    occurred_at: 2018-03-02
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2018-03-02
    title: I'm petrified of getting too confident
    venue: The Times Tech Podcast
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Co-founder and CEO
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [company-building, payments, growth, competition, culture]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2018]
    significance: Patrick discusses Stripe's position in financial infrastructure, its growth and valuation, and why maintaining uncertainty and intellectual humility mattered as the company became larger.
    source_ids: [source-1c1ccd634b5f7d73f612]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2016-12-patrick-collison-gray-area
    occurred_at: 2016-12-06
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2016-12-06
    title: Management, rationalism, and the Enlightenment
    venue: The Gray Area
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
        stripe_role: Co-founder and CEO
    media: [podcast]
    transcript:
      availability: none
    topics: [management, rationalism, company-building, culture, payments]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2016]
    significance: Patrick explains Stripe's business and management philosophy while connecting the company's operating culture to rationalism, intellectual history, and a belief in technological and institutional progress.
    source_ids: [source-4091456d98a90957fe07]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2016-05-patrick-john-collison-cbs
    occurred_at: 2016-05-01
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2016-05-01
    title: Fintech and the origin of Stripe
    venue: CBS 60 Minutes
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
      - name: John Collison
        role: interviewee
    media: [video, transcript]
    transcript:
      availability: official
      language: en
      source_id: source-26410b426525f71187bb
    topics: [founding, early-company, payments, product-demo, financial-industry]
    historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2016]
    significance: The brothers explain the payment friction that led them to Stripe and demonstrate the early product in a contemporaneous national television profile with an official script.
    source_ids: [source-26410b426525f71187bb]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2015-02-john-collison-stanford
    occurred_at: 2015-02-17
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2015-02-17
    title: Putting Startup Success in Perspective
    venue: Stanford Technology Ventures Program
    series: Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
    participants:
      - name: John Collison
        role: interviewee
    media: [video, transcript]
    duration_seconds: 3456
    duration_precision: exact
    transcript:
      availability: official
      language: en
      source_id: source-a5d1d621862fa7f1cac0
    topics: [founding, startup-failure, company-building, culture, entrepreneurship]
    historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2015]
    significance: John explains how celebrated startups repeatedly pass through uncertainty and failure, placing Stripe's early path in the context of startup evolution and durable company vision.
    source_ids: [source-a5d1d621862fa7f1cac0]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2014-10-patrick-john-collison-yc
    occurred_at: 2014-10-28
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2014-10-28
    title: Hiring and Culture, Part 2
    venue: Y Combinator
    series: Hiring and Culture
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: speaker
        stripe_role: Co-founder and CEO
      - name: John Collison
        role: speaker
        stripe_role: Co-founder and President
    media: [video, transcript]
    duration_seconds: 3037
    duration_precision: exact
    transcript:
      availability: automatic
      language: en
      source_id: source-c7d664518b9bba629716
    topics: [hiring, culture, management, early-company, company-building]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2014]
    significance: Patrick and John explain Stripe's early hiring bar, interview process, cultural choices, and management lessons while the company was moving beyond its founding team.
    source_ids: [source-c7d664518b9bba629716]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2013-08-patrick-collison-unsexy
    occurred_at: 2013-08-13
    date_precision: day
    published_at: 2013-08-13
    title: Patrick Collison at unSEXY Conf 2013
    venue: unSEXY Conference
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: speaker
        stripe_role: Co-founder and CEO
    media: [video, transcript]
    duration_seconds: 676
    duration_precision: exact
    transcript:
      availability: automatic
      language: en
      source_id: source-650f1c1afaf31f558df3
    topics: [founding, payments, early-company, product, entrepreneurship]
    historical_periods: [stripe-2009-2013]
    significance: Patrick gives a compact contemporaneous account of the payments problem Stripe set out to solve, the early product, and the company's progress while it was still a young startup.
    source_ids: [source-650f1c1afaf31f558df3]
    review_status: reviewed
  - id: appearance-2012-04-patrick-collison-startup-grind
    occurred_at: '2012'
    date_precision: year
    published_at: 2013-02-20
    title: Stripe, six months in
    venue: Startup Grind
    participants:
      - name: Patrick Collison
        role: interviewee
    media: [video, transcript]
    duration_seconds: 3300
    duration_precision: approximate
    transcript:
      availability: official
      language: en
      source_id: source-bda69e86e22cf8e2c66f
    topics: [auctomatic, buenos-aires, founding, first-users, early-hires, fundraising]
    historical_periods: [pre-stripe, stripe-2009-2012]
    significance: This early interview preserves Patrick's account of Auctomatic, Buenos Aires, the first Stripe prototype and users, the September 2011 launch, early hires, and fundraising while the company was still young.
    source_ids: [source-bda69e86e22cf8e2c66f]
    review_status: reviewed