Inside the AI Economy: What Stripe's Data Reveals — Nilofer Rajpurkar, Stripe

This talk details four patterns observed in fast-growing AI companies: building faster, selling globally from day one, pricing for the AI economy, and adopting new go-to-market motions early. It demonstrates adding payments to an app using Stripe's MCP server and agent skills, including CLI-provisioned sandboxes. The talk also covers hybrid pricing models (like Replit's), usage-based pricing principles, and the significant growth (10x) in agent traffic to Stripe's documentation, indicating agents are becoming key users and buyers.