EMEA Startups @Stripe | Co-Founder https://xitter.cf/t.co/aDk2MGseW0

London
Joined March 2018
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.@MercedesAMGF1 is the leading F1 team and the best business in the sport. Toto Wolff is the only owner-principal. I was excited to sit him down and understand his business background, how they run engineering under the constantly-changing rules, his views on the industry, and how he's preparing for succession. 00:00:22 Spotting driver talent 00:06:24 Engineering and team selection 00:09:11 The F1 cost cap 00:25:21 Toto’s early investing career 00:38:15 Running Mercedes as an owner 00:46:47 Why F1 team values exploded 01:08:24 Succession planning
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
We're partnering with @MercedesAMGF1. Read: stripe.com/newsroom/news/mer….
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
Introducing The Cheeky Pint Benchmark. We made our intern watch every episode of Cheeky Pint to bring you this breakdown of pints drank by guests to the nearest sixth. Congratulations to @elonmusk who is currently in the lead with three full pints of Guinness.
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
Cheeky Pint is back! Mark Zuckerberg @finkd and Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang came to the pub to discuss their new frontier model, Muse Wonder. 00:00:24 Muse’s breakout use cases 00:07:28 The model is the product 00:14:35 Muse Wonder 00:24:56 How frontier models are built 00:48:26 Betting $100B 01:07:21 Agentic commerce 01:19:34 OpenRouter 01:20:06 Beyond the smartphone 01:27:00 Funding 01:34:06 Why AI won’t be winner-take-all 01:40:46 Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) 02:08:11 Working for Mark Zuckerberg
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
"By the end of 2026, agents will read more Stripe docs than humans. Your job is to sell to agents in 2026. You have to be the vendor of choice not just for humans, but for agents." with @MaiaJo_ AI CRO @stripe
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
Hi @patrickc - Judith from @langdock here. We just crossed €50m ARR and flipped from a US Inc -> European SE. We want Germany to make starting and running companies easier (first on the list: compulsory notarization). At the same time, building a big company from here is absolutely possible and we intend to prove it. The SE is actually a good structure, but it's not an option for founders who are just starting out. That's why we are big supporters of @euinc. We're bullish on Germany - and bullish we can do even better. Both can be true at the same time. Happy to chat more.
I'm curious to read other stories from people who've scaled new businesses in Europe. (And if your experience has been positive, that's also useful to hear.) Feel free to email me: [email protected].
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
Today, a subcommittee on Edinburgh Council chose to IGNORE Granton. They prioritised a small group of NIMBYs over: 👉 One of Scotland’s most deprived communities 👉 Families moving into the 3,500 new homes 👉 More JOBS for the people of Granton, Muirhouse, and Pilton 👉 Access to Edinburgh College, Craigleith Retail Park & Western General Hospital. 👉 Companies expanding and SCALING. Local groups want the tram. @tracygilbert wants the tram. Polling shows the PEOPLE of Granton & Edinburgh WANT the tram. The Council has the power to OVERRULE. GIVE GRANTON THE TRAM. Help us force them to do it. Join our campaign.
Edinburgh councillors vote 7-2-2 to apporove a motion 'prioritising' the southern leg of the proposed tram extension over the line to Granton. Labour-SNP-Greens are majority position as LibDem motion to rule out Roseburn for good falls.
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
london is on the startup come up thanks a lot also to companies like @ElevenLabs @attio @UseCorgi @meetgranola @raycast and community builders like @isnit0 @oscarfalll @HamzaZaveri @decmclaughlin_ @theshre @rowans_planet @CharlieCheesma1 @fatemallk hoping @pally starts to make an impact here too shortly
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a 90-page investment contract read to him (mandatory under German law; § 13 BeurkG) by a notary that then charged €30,000. That was for his first company. His second company, needless to say, was not incorporated in Germany.
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
Instinct + Stripe Instinct users who make purchases spend over $1300/month on average through Instinct. Using Instinct to make high value purchases is a sign of trust that we deeply value. We’re partnering with Stripe to deliver a more seamless payment experience. Instinct has enabled use cases that involve payments including: - Planning and booking international trips - Ordering weekly groceries and household essentials - Booking yoga classes, ski tuning sessions, doctor’s appointments, car part repairs, and more - Getting you the best price for anything you’re looking for
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and Mario Draghi have created the Rhine Group, an organisation for European revival. They state that decline is not inevitable, and instead Europe should focus towards a common destiny where we have the capability to compete, build and grow.
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
An announcement: Under the leadership of Mario Draghi and @patrickc we have set up the Rhine Group: policymakers, economists, entrepreneurs and business people pushing European reforms and the Draghi agenda. rhinegroup.eu/
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
a16z’s Borderless Founder network initiative supports immigrant and international founders. 'Having one foot in your home country, and one foot in Silicon Valley," is an advantage, the firm believes. spr.ly/6012B1iON0
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
60 minutes re: how @stripe is building for, and with, AI. (Even though I work pretty deeply on this stuff, I always learn something from hearing @gaybrick explain it clearly.)
Stripe's Will Gaybrick: "Build everything" Against an industry that sees agents as a way to cut costs, Stripe is using them to build more: agents wrote 30% of code in a week, global tax filing shipped in 1/3 the time the US version took, and after AI made sellers 20% more productive, Stripe hired even more sellers. President of Technology & Business @gaybrick sits down with a16z's David George to cover why there's no one left for Stripe to copy, why checkout pages will disappear, how agents plus stablecoins make micropayments real, and why tokens are becoming a currency worth protecting like dollars. 00:00 Intro 01:00 From payments to 30 products 02:30 1 in 6 free trials abused 05:50 Win the startups, then win them again 09:40 Borrowing from Google, Apple, and Ford 14:30 Minions: 7K one-shot PRs a week 18:45 Building everything vs. cutting costs 26:00 Why timelines keep compressing 29:50 What replaces the checkout page 34:20 The case against $9.99 subscriptions 37:20 Stablecoins solve a political problem 41:35 Tempo, a payments-only blockchain 43:10 Tokens are money now 49:00 How Stripe scales taste youtube.com/watch?v=P5iICDVn… @gaybrick @DavidGeorge83
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
Adding Starlink to every UK train would be an incredible productivity boost 🛰️
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
Who needs mysterious Thai-based crypto-billionaires or convicted criminals called Posh George? You can support Team Binface by bunging me the cost of a trio of affordable croissants (£3) at ko-fi.com/countbinface. Or don’t. I love you either way.
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house. Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it. Leave him to me.
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Dec McLaughlin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 retweeted
Our offices run air conditioning at 22°C, 365 days a year. That isn't a perk. It's a performance decision. The data is clear. Cognitive performance peaks at around 22°C and drops off on either side, roughly 1% for every degree you move away from it. Cornell found workers at ~22°C made fewer errors and got more done than those left too hot or too cold. Off the back of this we're building a Human Performance team at Fuse. First hire is a Workplace Performance Manager, owning everything that makes our people sharper and more productive, pushing the absolute limit of human performance. This week the European Commission shut off the AC for staff on lower floors while commissioners on the upper floors kept theirs running. That's the degrowth mindset in one image: ask the people doing the actual work to sweat for a rounding error of emissions, while the people at the top stay cool. We reject the premise entirely. The answer to energy isn't to ration comfort and call it virtue. It's to build more of it, clean and abundant, so nobody has to choose between performance and the planet. That's the whole reason Fuse exists. 22°C. Seven days a week. For everyone.
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