Stripe

Stripe is the payments and financial infrastructure layer behind a huge slice of internet commerce — processing online and in-person payments, recurring billing, tax, invoicing, payouts, business cards, fraud prevention, and embedded financial products for platforms and marketplaces. Customers run from solo founders on Stripe Atlas to half of the Fortune 100, including Amazon, Shopify, Ford, Hertz, Anthropic, and OpenAI; the company processed $1.9T in payments in 2025. Stripe is private but at scale, with an unusually broad product surface area and active expansion into AI-related infrastructure (agentic commerce, crypto/stablecoins). Culturally it's known for written communication, deep onboarding, and putting people on hard, high-ownership problems quickly — Stripes often work outside their immediate domain. Teams are global with offices across multiple continents and remote enablement programs.