The biggest constraints on shipping speed are now back-office bottlenecks—code merges, seller training, pricing pages—not engineering capacity, so Stripe is optimizing every phase of the critical path from ideation to user delivery.

13:10>> Yes. you know, we have reams of user asks going back many years that are unmet. And so we just want to get through them all faster. >> And so while we have, you know, more and more productivity from those senior engineers, if you want to ship more and build faster, you have to create founder-like agency inside your company. >> And so the main things that are holding

13:32back our progress today are actually sort of back office things. You know, we are merging so much more code than last year. And it is stressing every system. It is stressing how do we get things into our seller systems? How do we get things onto our pricing page? How do we actually bring things to market when we can't train sellers on them fast enough? And so we are really trying at this

13:53stage to optimize every single phase of we think of it as sort of the critical path in Stripe from you know the ideas behind product development the user asks all the way to products being in users's hands. And so, you know, to your question of how do you go faster, it's really two things. It's one just how do you create that agency for everyone at Stripe? How do you let everyone at

14:14Stripe be an otur like a founder, you know, a a a creative and not have them held back by the morass of, you know, centralized processes overhead. Yeah. Exactly. >> Exactly. And on the other side then it's how do you you know with your de uh your dev prod team just make the tools better and better and better. Um, so we created something called Stripe Minions, which