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    Stripe

    Stripe is an American financial services and software company. It provides application programming interfaces that developers use to add payment processing to websites and mobile apps. John and Patrick Collison founded it in Palo Alto, California, in 2010.

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    Chief Executive Officer
    Patrick Collison

    Leadership

    Patrick Collison, Chief Executive Officer. Patrick Collison is the chief executive officer of Stripe, which he co-founded with his younger brother, John, in 2010.

    Key facts

    Founded
    2010, in Palo Alto, Californiasource
    Headquarters
    South San Francisco, California, U.S. and Dublin, Irelandsource
    Employees
    8,500 (2025)source
    Revenue
    US$5.1 billion (2024)source
    Valuation
    $159 billion in a February 2026 tender offer for employees and shareholderssource

    WYDE coverage of Stripe

    WYDE Newsroom has published 9 articles about Stripe, from Mar 23, 2026 to Sep 18, 2026. Stripe is the subject of 7 stories, an investor in 1 story and a donor in 1 story. The most recent is World Launches World Money, a Self-Custodial Stablecoin App Reaching More Than 150 Countries.

    Crypto & DeFi

    World Launches World Money, a Self-Custodial Stablecoin App Reaching More Than 150 Countries

    The super app from Sam Altman and Alex Blania's Tools for Humanity lets users hold stablecoins in eight currencies, fund from Apple Pay through Stripe, and connects to Kalshi and Morpho, with World ID verification built in.

    Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

    Crypto & DeFi

    World Launches World Money, a Self-Custodial Stablecoin Super App, Across 150 Countries

    World Money is a self-custodial stablecoin super app from Sam Altman and Alex Blania's World, launching across 150-plus countries with Stripe and Apple Pay on-ramps, Morpho yield, and World ID identity built into the payment rail.

    Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

    WYDE Weekly

    Visa built stablecoin rails, Wyoming set a giving record, and the EAT Card hit the App Store. Over 60,000 meals.

    WYDE Weekly: Visa's stablecoin platform, DTCC's first live tokenized trades, the Senate's unanimous no-pardon vote on SBF, WyoGives' record $6.46 million, Lilly's $100 billion endowment, and the EAT Card iOS launch.

    Jul 18, 2026 · 6 min read · Subject of the story

    Legal

    Stripe and Advent Offer to Buy PayPal for More Than $53 Billion

    The payments company and the private equity firm are offering $60.50 a share, a roughly 28% premium, with about $50 billion in committed bank financing behind one of the largest fintech buyout bids ever

    Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

    Crypto & DeFi

    AI Agents Are Starting to Make Their Own Charitable Donations

    Platforms like zooidfund now let autonomous AI agents evaluate campaigns and send USDC directly to people in crisis, with every decision published and auditable on-chain.

    Jul 4, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

    WYDE Weekly

    Big Tech moved $1.5B into giving. A judge saved SNAP. Roubini went onchain. 58,300 meals.

    WYDE Weekly: Intercept's $500M fund, Evan Spiegel's $550M medical-debt erase, the US $800M WFP pledge, Project Pangea, and the EAT Card beta.

    Jun 27, 2026 · 6 min read · Investor

    Healthcare

    Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI and Gates Back Intercept, a $500 Million Fund to End Respiratory Viruses

    Intercept, a $500 million philanthropic initiative led by Nan Ransohoff and backed by Stripe, Anthropic, the OpenAI Foundation, the Flu Lab, Bill Gates, and Jane Street traders, will fund broad-spectrum preventatives and air-cleaning technologies like far-UVC light to make respiratory infections a thing of the past.

    Jun 24, 2026 · 2 min read · Donor

    WYDE Weekly

    The SEC just cleared crypto. TSA agents are visiting food banks. We just hit 10,000 meals.

    SEC classifies crypto, SNAP cuts project 70K deaths, TSA food banks, $EAT ATH, Tempo blockchain launch, Mastercard BVNK acquisition.

    Mar 23, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story

    Crypto & DeFi

    Stripe and Paradigm Launch $5 Billion Tempo Blockchain With AI Agent Payment Protocol

    Stripe and Paradigm launch Tempo blockchain with Machine Payments Protocol enabling AI agents to send and receive payments autonomously.

    Mar 23, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

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