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Black Friday through Cyber Monday is the biggest weekend of the year for millions of companies building on Stripe. Join us to celebrate these businesses and see real-time data from across our network—including live transaction volume, cross-border commerce, agentic activity, and Stripe API uptime. For the first time, we're also tracking Giving Tuesday data live. See you in Stripe City.

Come visit Bannerbear, DoorDash's autonomous delivery robot Dot, 🦔 james hawkins, and more at Stripe City on Friday at 9 am ET. We will be sharing real-time Black Friday/Cyber Monday data all weekend: https://bfcm.stripe.com.

Julia DeWahl is the cofounder of Antares, a company developing nuclear microreactors for the US military and critical infrastructure. On Cheeky Pint, Julia and John Collison discuss:  — Her vision for the "Starlink of electricity" — Why AI hyperscalers are driving a nuclear renaissance — The bipartisan shift in nuclear regulation  — Why true energy resilience requires more than just solar and batteries — Lessons from the early days of Opendoor and Starlink YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gtNv5vkX Spotify: https://lnkd.in/guv_Tvh2  Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/g_JjUpni Full transcript on Substack: https://lnkd.in/gW2eTRat

📈 You can now share MRR snapshots directly from your dashboard. Try today: https://lnkd.in/gBg3vWV.

Very excited to share that Klarna is using Bridge to launch KlarnaUSD. They’re building on top of Bridge’s platform, Open Issuance, which enables businesses to launch their own stablecoins with just a few lines of code. Any business building financial infrastructure with stablecoins should be thinking about issuing their own coin. With Open Issuance, Klarna can: 1. Customize their reserves composition and management strategy 2. Benefit fully from the economics on those reserves 3. Control the mint and burn fees for their stablecoin 4. Set up custom smart contracts that ensure KlarnaUSD is uniquely optimized for their needs KlarnaUSD will launch on Tempo. Read the announcement: https://lnkd.in/gCjTTd4a If you’re thinking about building with stablecoins, get in touch with the Bridge team!

See you on Friday: https://bfcm.stripe.com.

Satya Nadella on how he leads a 200,000-employee organization by wandering the virtual corridors of Teams. Watch the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/g2YnfZjm.

And we are live: the first print issue of Works In Progress is landing on people's doorsteps today. Over the next few days, our thousands of subscribers, everywhere from Alaska to Australia, should be receiving their first copy. We set out to make the most beautiful magazine on the planet, and I am very excited about what we've started. The actual content is as good as ever. We have pieces on inflatable space stations, the war between the Swiss and Japanese watch industries, the "great downzoning" in the world's cities, and on whether Ancient Greek and Roman statues were really painted as badly as museums claim (perhaps not). I hope you enjoy it! And if you'd like to get a copy of this edition, you can subscribe here and you'll be sent this most recent copy, along with the rest of your year's subscription as it comes out: https://lnkd.in/e_fN8tvf.

Stripe communities are meeting in cities around the world. Join to connect with founders, developers, and entrepreneurs building on Stripe. Register: 🇧🇪 Brussels (November 22): https://luma.com/f7gs82fe 🇬🇧 London (November 26): https://luma.com/yr9bxsyx 🇲🇽 Mexico City (November 27): https://luma.com/txfv7wdv 🇨🇦 Toronto (December 2): https://luma.com/vqtanzsd 🇬🇧 London (December 3): https://luma.com/1xl0mjl0 🇬🇧 London (December 4): https://luma.com/styf627f 🇺🇸 New York (December 4): https://luma.com/q6z2hayx 🇵🇱 Poznan (December 6): https://luma.com/85mrxxco 🇺🇸 Las Vegas (January 5): https://luma.com/trsiamjf 🇨🇭 Zurich (January 22): https://lnkd.in/gxbNgfzn

Stewart Brand has spent 60 years inviting us to look at the world anew—from the communal living of the Whole Earth Catalog to the deep-time thinking of The Long Now Foundation. Now, with MAINTENANCE: OF EVERYTHING, PART ONE, he asks us to re-examine the tedious tasks we usually ignore. As Brand writes, “Maintenance is what keeps everything going. It’s what keeps life going.” As he says, this is not a book about "changing the damn oil." It’s an invitation to see maintenance as a profound act of responsibility and care, a new frame of reference, and “a fruitful way to rethink all manner of things.” The print volume expands on the series Stewart Brand began in our sister magazine, Works In Progress, on the civilizational importance of repair. Part One explores lessons from maintaining sailboats, motorcycles, cars, and weapons, touching on everything from the evolution of manufacturing precision to the never-ending battle against corrosion. MAINTENANCE: OF EVERYTHING, PART ONE is out January 2026. Preorder now: https://lnkd.in/epKkVsKU.