David Singleton’s Post

At Stripe Tour London, Demis Hassabis and Matt Clifford discussed how AI can accelerate scientific discovery and how multimodality puts us on the path to human-level AI. Demis and Matt—thank you for your insights. Watch the full interview: https://lnkd.in/g7GnTruM.

A great leader who I admire and have tried to emulate since early in my career once told me that as a leader “people are watching, and you are never off duty”. I confess that I’ve found the idea that how I behave in every interaction really matters both true and rather daunting. Recently I had the pleasure of reading a pre-print copy of Do Sweat the Small Stuff (https://a.co/d/3MEerSZ) by the brilliant and perspicacious Sarah Langslow, MBA, PCC which is out in a few weeks — it’s a great active read (keep a pen handy). The book offers a valuable lens to observe your own leadership through, and a practical set of exercises and suggestions to intentionally develop your influence and effectiveness as a leader, by focusing on the acute impact of your so-called micro-interactions.

Thanks Anne Bouverot, Special Envoy of President Macron for the AI Action Summit, for visiting Stripe! AI will have transformative effects not just on the tech sector, but across various aspects of everyday life from healthcare to education to climate change mitigation. It was wonderful to hear Anne’s vision for next year’s Paris AI Summit, which will provide a global moment to explore the benefits of AI, and an open forum for discussing how to ensure these benefits are broadly distributed.And I was happy to share details on how Stripe is deploying AI to help businesses increase revenue and decrease costs, and to offer our insights on the AI businesses being built on the Stripe platform.

I'm excited to share technical details on the design and application of Stripe's database infrastructure. This is the key foundation that supports API uptime greater than 99.999%: https://lnkd.in/gSP7y7dV

At the Politehnica University of Bucharest with Luciana Lixandru, Sequoia Partner and Stripe board member. We spoke about the opportunity to build software-defined financial services, the tech and investing landscape in Europe and Romania, and Stripe's growing engineering footprint in Bucharest.

I sat down with Ian Hogarth and he shared his insights as an investor and UK gov advisor on AI. We talk about robotics, the London tech ecosystem, and his advice for founders. https://lnkd.in/g5TPKp9Y

Wonderful to sit down with my friend Farhan Thawar at Shopify. I spoke about the importance of managers taking engineerication (engineer+vacation), working directly with teams to understand the developer experience at Stripe.

We have our beloved 4242 test card to validate your payments integration. But what about recurring payments that need to factor in the passage of time? Learn more about how we updated Stripe systems to account for the different ways that time passes: https://lnkd.in/gxRFcaDq

Stripe is continuing to expand in Canada—the Toronto office itself, our product offering, and our user-base (Canada’s now our third-largest market!). At our meetup tonight, it was great to chat with Sanjana Basu and Robleh Jama and meet with so many local users. It’s an interesting moment for tech in Canada, but there are two things I know are true here: the quality of talent is undeniable and the tenacity of entrepreneurs is energizing.