Christopher Abboud
@CAbboud
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Paris
Joined April 2012
Replace « the UK » by « France » and rethink current political deadlocks (also works with most European countries)
"Whatever you care about, whatever your vision for this country, it will be much easier to achieve it if we make the UK rich again." @matthewclifford at LFG: Make or Break 🚀
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Both the Left and Right in France have lost their minds.
This one made me laugh, let me translate it for you. Public spend as % of GDP in France is at 57.2% at the moment, higher than in the Soviet Union. Program of the far-left populists would get it to 64.7%, and of the far-right populists to 63.3%. In which universe do they live?
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Building AI agents for codegen? We've built the agent you'll need to secure what you generate. Now available as an API.
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Introducing @Tempo. At Stripe, we care about high-throughput, low-latency payments use cases. As the use of stablecoins (and crypto more broadly) grows across Stripe, Bridge, and Privy, we found that existing blockchains are not optimized for them. For example, it's valuable
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NEW at WORKS IN PROGRESS ☢️⚡️🔋 France built forty nuclear reactors in ten years across the 1970s and 1980s, for a fraction of today's prices. For the first time in English, we tell the story of how they did it — and what the rest of the world needs to learn to do the same.
new from me for @worksinprogmag: how France achieved the world’s fastest nuclear buildout I tell the story of how France defied the global backlash against nuclear power by aligning local incentives, embracing standardisation and abandoning a failed domestic design. 🧵
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Anthropic is one of the fastest-growing businesses of all time. @DarioAmodei and I chatted about flying past $5b in ARR, Anthropic's focus on B2B, payback economics of individual models, talent wars, AI market structure, and lots more. And you all said that you all want longer
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What will agentic commerce mean for the world? Emily covers this, Stripe's new foundation model, and more.
Had fun talking about all things AI at @stripe with @mattturck - agentic commerce, our new foundation model, and how we're boosting users’ revenue. https://t.co/T1cUy9xV5w
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Icarus International Consulting Group | The War on Buttons: A Human Rebellion Against Unnecessary Complexity Some wars are fought over land, others over ideology. Ours, today, is over buttons—and it’s a battle that touches the core of what it means to be human in a digital age.
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Growing the G
OpenAI co-founder @gdb talks about integrating research and product development, the scaling hypothesis, and his AI predictions. Subscription links for future episodes: https://t.co/C3EMVuiblP
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One of the best parts of Stripe is working with the world's most interesting businesses. Taking advantage of this, we're launching a podcast where we host founders and leaders for a cheeky pint in our hastily-constructed office pub. Coming soon: episodes with @gdb, Meta’s Susan
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Seulement 22 licornes en 🇫🇷... mais 46 licornes aux 🇺🇸 fondées par des entrepreneurs venus de France. On peut continuer la politique de la terre brûlée pour que ça devienne encore plus insignifiant.
La France compte plus de 4,3 millions d’entreprises. Plus d’un million d’entreprises se créent chaque année. En dix ans, 22 licornes ont émergé en France. Vous parlez donc de 0.0000022% des cas et vous dites que l’instauration de la taxe #Zucman freinerait le business ?
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This work will also allow us to offer buyer incentives like 1% cash back in the future. And it’s all transparent to merchants, they will simply get normal local currency payouts the same as usual (unless you choose to keep it as USDC!). Stripe helped us make this totally seamless
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With head coach firings across college football, Caleb and Josh Downs discuss the huge payouts and how this affects the team in the latest episode of Downs 2 Business. Watch or listen to the latest episode, out now! Sponsored by @google
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millions of businesses on @shopify will soon be able to accept USDC—with help from @stripe and @stablecoin stablecoins are quietly and undramatically being woven into the fabric of everyday commerce more here -->
Shopify will enable USDC (Stablecoins on @Base) in Checkout via Shopify Payments and Shop Pay. Early access starts today, roll out throughout the year. We think that stablecoins are a natural way to transact on the Internet and worked with coinbase to develop the commerce
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Brotherly trolling is by far the best trolling.
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Crypto wallets are going to play an increasingly important role in the growth of the internet economy. Delighted to welcome @privy_io to @stripe to make it easier for developers to build the next wave of onchain infrastructure.
1/ Today, we're proud to announce that Stripe is acquiring Privy. We couldn’t be more excited. Privy will continue as an independent product – but now we’ll move faster, ship more, and serve you even better, so you can stay focused on your users.
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1/ Today, we're proud to announce that Stripe is acquiring Privy. We couldn’t be more excited. Privy will continue as an independent product – but now we’ll move faster, ship more, and serve you even better, so you can stay focused on your users.
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UPS Flight 2976 crashed after takeoff from Louisville, KY airport, killing 3 crew and injuring 11 on ground. The MD-11 cargo jet, bound for Honolulu, burst into flames. Video shows the terrifying scene. Incredibly sad for the people on board and those injured on the ground.
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It's hard to definitively attribute the causality, but it seems that AI is starting to influence @stripe's macro figures: payment volume from customers that signed up for Stripe in 2025 is tracking way ahead of prior years. (And ahead of even 2020, when the lockdowns triggered a
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Perplexity’s new travel search is wild. Instead of scrolling 847 hotels, just ask: "Find 4/5 star boutique hotels in Paris, breakfast, airport shuttle, great solo traveler reviews etc." 30 sec later: perfect match! No fake reviews. No bad photos. It even books via Stripe! 🤯
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This shouldn't exist yet. I've tested @perplexity_ai 's travel search and booking and... No scrolling 847 hotels and photos trying to spot a decent gym, I asked: "Find me a hotel in Amsterdam with a serious gym, walkable to conference venues, under €300/night" Result:
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