Will Gaybrick, President, Technology and Business (also styled President of Product and Business). A senior executive who runs product and business teams and says internal AI numbers on the record; Gaybrick is promoting the company, and the interview host's firm (a16z) invests in Stripe.
How this was checked
Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-10-31).
Fetched the English captions with yt-dlp (auto-generated, not human-made). The words match exactly: 'And about 30% of our PRs in that week came from Minions'. This follows a '>>' speaker change after the host's 'Wow'. The captions carry no speaker names, so I attributed it to Will Gaybrick because it is a Stripe-internal statistic. I did not check the video's audio or timestamp.
How to cite this passage
Will Gaybrick (Stripe), Tokens Are the New Dollars | Stripe's Will Gaybrick & David George (podcast episode: "Stripe’s AI Strategy: Build More, Not Less"), The a16z Show (podcast and YouTube channel of Andreessen Horowitz, an investor in Stripe), 2026-08-17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5iICDVn5gc Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/stripe-about-30-prs-week-came-minions-2026
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