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Will Gaybrick

President, Product & Business, Stripe

Search every verified Will Gaybrick interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Will Gaybrick, President of Product & Business at Stripe, discussed the company's evolution from a payments processor into a multi-product financial infrastructure platform during an August 2026 appearance on an a16z podcast. He described AI as an opportunity to expand output rather than merely reduce costs, stating that internal coding agents now enable a single engineer to do work that previously required two teams. Gaybrick also introduced "Strike Minions," an internal tool created to manage the increased volume of code generation, and emphasized the importance of fostering "founder-like agency" within the company to accelerate product development. Gaybrick also addressed the emerging field of agentic commerce, noting that Stripe has developed a "machine payments protocol" called Tempo to enable services to request and receive payments automatically, including via 402 responses for content purchases. He described tokens as "an approximation of money" and highlighted growing security concerns, such as free trial abuse and sophisticated attacks targeting users of general-purpose token consumers on platforms like Cursor and Replit.

Recent appearances

  • Tokens Are the New Dollars | Stripe's Will Gaybrick & David George

    August 17, 2026 · 📺 a16z

    a16z General Partner David George is joined by Will Gaybrick, President of Product & Business at Stripe, to discuss how AI is changing the way Stripe builds products, organizes teams, and thinks about the future of internet commerce. Stripe has evolved from a payments company into a multi-product financial infrastructure platform, while a new generation of AI companies is growing and monetizing faster than previous software cohorts. Will explains why Stripe sees AI productivity as an opportunity to build more rather than simply cut costs, including how its internal coding agents now generate…

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  • Inside Stripe: Stablecoins, AI, and (not) Going Public | Will Gaybrick

    November 13, 2025 · 📺 The Peel with Turner Novak

    Will Gaybrick is the President of Technology and Business at Stripe. Stripe builds financial infrastructure for the internet, and if you’ve ever purchased a product online, you’ve probably used Stripe. We talk about what Stripe’s doing in crypto and stablecoins, how AI is changing commerce and payments, how they’re thinking about going public, how they build products internally, and interesting data they’re seeing around AI-native companies, like how they’re growing 3.5x faster than SaaS companies. Thank you to Claire Hughes Johnson, Josh Kushner, and Cosmin Nicolaescu for help brainstormin…

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  • Will Gaybrick, President, Product and Business at Stripe: Tokenized Interviews

    July 17, 2025 · 📺 Tokenized

    Stripe broke the internet when they spent $1.1bn for Bridge. But this was a small part of a bigger master plan. In this Exclusive Tokenized Interview, President of Stripe Will Gaybrick takes us behind the scenes... 🧵 Timestamps: 02:28 Problems with traditional fiat payment systems and inefficiencies 04:36 Stablecoins as programmable dollars in an open ecosystem 07:24 Stripe's acquisition of Bridge 09:39 Stablecoin financial accounts expanding to over 100 countries 11:15 Visa cards for spending stablecoin balances in 12 markets 16:20 Role of non-custodial wallets in stablecoin adoption…

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  • Will Gaybrick on Capital Allocation, Org Design, AI, and Global Growth

    September 20, 2024 · 📺 The Logan Bartlett Show

    Will Gaybrick joined Stripe as CFO after investing in the company at Thrive Capital. Over the past 9 years, now as President, he's helped grow Stripe's into one of the world's largest private startups. In this episode, we explore his impressive career journey—from Harvard Math to software engineering, Yale Law, venture capital, and now his leadership role at Stripe. Will shares key insights on capital allocation, crypto, AI, investing, leadership, and more. Some takeaways: (00:00) Intro (01:09) From Academia to Venture Capital (02:01) Joining Stripe: The Unexpected Journey (02:09) Career Phil…

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  • The road less travelled

    April 05, 2018 · 📺 Collision Conference

    Lowercase Capital's Matt Mazzeo, Fortune Magazine's Erin Griffith and Stripe's Will Gaybrick at Collision Conf 2017. Collision is “America’s fastest growing tech conference” created by the team behind Web Summit. Want to be at #CollisionConf next year? Get your ticket now: http://news.collisionconf.com/YT_tickets

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  • Making the complex simple

    April 05, 2018 · 📺 Collision Conference

    Stripe CFO, William Gaybrick, talked through the importance of clarity while ensuring the right focus and choices are prioritized for your company. Collision is “America’s fastest growing tech conference” created by the team behind Web Summit. Want to be at #CollisionConf next year? Get your ticket now: http://news.collisionconf.com/YT_tickets

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  • Full Show: Bloomberg Technology (11/29)

    November 30, 2016 · 📺 Bloomberg Tech

    Nov.29 -- Full episode of "Bloomberg Technology." Guests include: William Gaybrick, Stripe's chief financial officer, Lynn Jurich, Sunrun's chief executive officer, Douglas Feagin, Ant Financial senior vice president, and Francois Chopard, Starburst Accelerator founder.

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