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).

Raw HTML fetched with curl and tags stripped. The page, dated November 3, 2022, introduces 'Stripe CEO Patrick Collison sent the following note to Stripe employees' and then reads 'We’re reducing the size of our team by around 14% and saying goodbye to many talented Stripes in the process.' The passage matches exactly, with the same curly apostrophe. It is Collison's own email, posted by Stripe.