Stripe's president: build more with AI, coding agents ship thousands of PRs weekly
a16z Podcast · rss · 2026-08-17
On the a16z Podcast, Stripe President of Product & Business Will Gaybrick joins GP David George to discuss how AI is reshaping how Stripe builds products, organizes teams, and thinks about the future of internet commerce.
- AI productivity: Stripe treats AI as an opportunity to build more, not just cut costs — its internal coding agents now generate thousands of pull requests per week.
- Organization: creating founder-like agency inside a large company, with smaller, flatter teams.
- Outlook: as the cost of building software falls, dramatically more software will be created; they look ahead to agentic commerce, the possible disappearance of checkout pages, a return of micropayments, stablecoins as global infrastructure, and AI agents buying software and services from other machines.
- Context: Stripe has evolved from a payments company into a multi-product financial infrastructure platform, while new AI companies grow and monetize faster than prior software cohorts.
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