category:
  description: Stripe editorial projects across books, magazines, film, podcasts, and other formats, including an event for each documented Stripe Press title.
  id: publishing
  label: Publishing
  order: 9
events:
  - confidence: reported
    date: 2026-09-10
    date_precision: day
    details:
      - label: Scope
        value: Non-AI SaaS companies with payments processed through Stripe
      - label: Method
        value: Weekly, same-business indices based on pay-in volume
      - label: Limits
        value: Tracks gross SaaS demand trends and does not replace an income statement
    id: stripe-economics-introduces-the-stripe-saas-index
    metrics:
      - context: Flagship aggregate index so far in 2026
        label: Average businesses covered per week
        value: 72,000
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Stripe Economics
    people:
      - Ernie Tedeschi
    source_ids:
      - source-ec1ad6d84c91062e9d20
    status: introduced
    summary: Stripe Economics introduced the Stripe SaaS Index, a weekly same-business measure based on pay-in volumes processed through Stripe for non-AI SaaS companies. Its flagship aggregate index covered an average of 72,000 businesses per week in 2026 to date. The publication said it would host and update the indices online.
    tags:
      - stripe-economics
      - saas
      - economic-data
      - index
    title: Stripe Economics introduces the Stripe SaaS Index
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2026-03-17
    date_precision: day
    id: stripe-economics-begins-publishing
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Stripe Economics
    people:
      - Ernie Tedeschi
    source_ids:
      - source-45841285beb2a5ad6f70
      - source-e95a1887b6e1cf6c11a3
    status: Newsletter publishing
    summary: Stripe, LLC published Stripe Economics, a newsletter of internet economics data and analysis. The earliest dated item in its public feed is Ernie Tedeschi's essay on a K-shaped economy. The feed does not identify an earlier launch announcement.
    tags:
      - stripe-economics
      - newsletter
      - launch
    title: Stripe Economics begins publishing
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2026-02
    date_precision: month
    id: maintenance-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Stewart Brand
    source_ids:
      - source-ec08d50c1141dbc46e6d
      - source-c2ef8de7976b0a3817a5
    status: Book published
    summary: "Stripe Press published Stewart Brand's Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, an argument that maintenance is a central civilizational practice spanning buildings, infrastructure, software, and institutions."
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - maintenance
    title: Stripe Press publishes Maintenance
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2025-10-14
    date_precision: day
    id: origins-of-efficiency-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Brian Potter
    source_ids:
      - source-0366916b6be55183514a
      - source-f33b2898dbb601f635b3
    status: Book published
    summary: Stripe Press published Brian Potter's The Origins of Efficiency, a study of the mechanisms by which production processes become faster, cheaper, and more reliable across industries.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - industrial-progress
    title: Stripe Press publishes The Origins of Efficiency
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2025-09-18
    date_precision: day
    id: works-in-progress-print-edition-launched
    organizations:
      - Works in Progress
      - Stripe
    related_events:
      - works-in-progress-founded
    source_ids:
      - source-0f2ee84b2a249276fb50
    status: Print subscription launched
    summary: Works in Progress opened subscriptions for a recurring print edition, adding a physical magazine to its freely available online essays. The publication retained its focus on economic growth, technology, policy, and human progress.
    tags:
      - works-in-progress
      - magazine
      - print
    title: Works in Progress launches a print edition
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2025-06-16
    date_precision: day
    id: cheeky-pint-podcast-launches
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    people:
      - John Collison
    source_ids:
      - source-2b9798bb1521325a716a
    status: Podcast launched
    summary: Stripe released the trailer for Cheeky Pint, a long-form technology interview podcast hosted by John Collison.
    tags:
      - cheeky-pint
      - podcast
      - interviews
    title: Stripe launches the Cheeky Pint podcast
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2025-03-25
    date_precision: day
    id: scaling-era-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Dwarkesh Patel
      - Gavin Leech
    source_ids:
      - source-66b82449fa2a80e4c027
      - source-391821de004fb1a8d195
    status: Digital edition published; print preorders opened
    summary: "Stripe Press published The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025 by Dwarkesh Patel with Gavin Leech, assembling interviews, essays, definitions, and visual explanations of modern artificial intelligence."
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - artificial-intelligence
    title: Stripe Press publishes The Scaling Era
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2024-11-19
    date_precision: day
    id: boom-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Byrne Hobart
      - Tobias Huber
    source_ids:
      - source-26d0fe3a25115e526465
      - source-74ec7e63f0ae7f279004
    status: Book published
    summary: "Stripe Press published Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber, arguing that speculative bubbles can coordinate capital and accelerate adoption of frontier technologies."
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - economics
    title: Stripe Press publishes Boom
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2023-12
    date_precision: month
    id: poor-charlies-almanack-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Charles T. Munger
      - Peter D. Kaufman
      - John Collison
    source_ids:
      - source-309d768b99fde62a31ae
      - source-e86271de9096463a5ac3
    status: Book edition published
    summary: Stripe Press published an abridged edition of Poor Charlie's Almanack, Peter D. Kaufman's collection of Charles T. Munger's talks and ideas, with a new foreword by John Collison.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - republication
    title: Stripe Press publishes its edition of Poor Charlie's Almanack
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2023-03-07
    date_precision: day
    id: scaling-people-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Claire Hughes Johnson
    source_ids:
      - source-46bb338c33a88fca0929
      - source-6fc719eb40c62a9a55fd
    status: Book published
    summary: Stripe Press published Scaling People by former Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson, a practical operating guide to management systems, organizational design, hiring, and company communication.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - management
    title: Stripe Press publishes Scaling People
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2022-09-06
    date_precision: day
    id: we-are-as-gods-wide-release
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
      - Structure Films
    people:
      - Stewart Brand
      - David Alvarado
      - Jason Sussberg
    source_ids:
      - source-9dc6403512fc204f5744
      - source-919b997e5edbf0d1258d
    status: Digital release
    summary: Stripe Press and Structure Films released We Are As Gods, a feature documentary about Stewart Brand, after its planned 2020 SXSW debut was disrupted by the pandemic. It was Stripe Press's first feature documentary release.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - documentary
      - film
    title: Stripe Press releases We Are As Gods
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2022-04-27
    date_precision: day
    id: beneath-the-surface-podcast-launches
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Tamara Winter
    source_ids:
      - source-f4b8c7ffa11d6fb5df68
      - source-79b0f9a2bc894c5e34ba
    status: Podcast launched
    summary: Stripe Press launched Beneath the Surface, a documentary podcast hosted by Tamara Winter about infrastructure, cities, energy, transport, housing, and the people building responses to those systems.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - podcast
      - infrastructure
    title: Stripe Press launches Beneath the Surface
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2022-02-17
    date_precision: day
    id: works-in-progress-joins-stripe
    organizations:
      - Works in Progress
      - Stripe
    related_events:
      - works-in-progress-founded
    source_ids:
      - source-54483c6f0408dcb374f0
    status: Publication acquired and funded by Stripe
    summary: Works in Progress announced that it had joined Stripe, allowing its editorial team to work on the publication full-time. The editors said Stripe would fund the magazine while preserving editorial independence and free online access.
    tags:
      - works-in-progress
      - magazine
      - editorial-independence
    title: Works in Progress joins Stripe
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: "2022"
    date_precision: year
    id: pieces-of-the-action-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Vannevar Bush
      - Ben Reinhardt
    source_ids:
      - source-ba35b739c70ba7868444
    status: Book edition published
    summary: Stripe Press published an updated edition of Vannevar Bush's Pieces of the Action, his memoir of coordinating scientific research, government, and industry, with a new foreword by Ben Reinhardt.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - republication
    title: Stripe Press republishes Pieces of the Action
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2021-11-30
    date_precision: day
    id: where-is-my-flying-car-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - J. Storrs Hall
    source_ids:
      - source-031c156e70030822874d
      - source-0b75f814a22078c9d80c
    status: Book published
    summary: Stripe Press published J. Storrs Hall's Where Is My Flying Car?, an investigation of technological stagnation and a case for renewed progress in energy, transportation, and physical technology.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - technological-progress
    title: Stripe Press publishes Where Is My Flying Car?
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2021-11
    date_precision: month
    id: increment-final-issue
    metrics:
      - label: Issues published
        value: "19"
      - label: Stories published
        value: More than 250
      - label: Contributors
        value: More than 400
    organizations:
      - Increment
      - Stripe
    related_events:
      - increment-launches
      - increment-print-subscriptions-launch
    source_ids:
      - source-18d7b036f7b18496f3db
    status: Publication ended; archive retained
    summary: Increment ended its run after 19 issues and more than 250 stories published between April 2017 and November 2021. Stripe preserved the magazine online as an archive of writing about software systems and engineering culture.
    tags:
      - increment
      - magazine
      - final-issue
    title: Increment publishes its final issue
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2021-07-20
    date_precision: day
    id: the-big-score-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Michael S. Malone
    source_ids:
      - source-dda978fa29fb0e3f1ddd
      - source-544128bb24b7d24104da
    status: Book edition published
    summary: Stripe Press published a new edition of Michael S. Malone's The Big Score, a contemporaneous history of Silicon Valley's semiconductor, computer, venture-capital, and startup industries.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - republication
      - silicon-valley
    title: Stripe Press republishes The Big Score
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: "2020"
    date_precision: year
    id: art-of-doing-science-and-engineering-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Richard W. Hamming
      - Bret Victor
    source_ids:
      - source-dca09adf3ca00a50d008
    status: Book edition published
    summary: Stripe Press published a redesigned edition of Richard W. Hamming's lectures on research, taste, learning, and ambitious technical work, with a new foreword by Bret Victor and redrawn figures.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - republication
      - science
    title: Stripe Press republishes The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: "2020"
    date_precision: year
    id: increment-print-subscriptions-launch
    organizations:
      - Increment
      - Stripe
    related_events:
      - increment-launches
      - increment-final-issue
    source_ids:
      - source-68ef23b66125c4fd22f9
    status: Print subscription launched
    summary: Increment made annual print subscriptions available after previously distributing issues through selected channels. The move gave Stripe's software magazine a direct, recurring physical-publication model.
    tags:
      - increment
      - magazine
      - print
    title: Increment launches print subscriptions
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: "2020"
    date_precision: year
    id: making-of-prince-of-persia-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Jordan Mechner
    source_ids:
      - source-e16e1affbf6a4f7fc8ff
    status: Book published
    summary: Stripe Press published an illustrated edition of Jordan Mechner's development journals from the creation of Prince of Persia, documenting the creative and technical process behind an early landmark game.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - games
    title: Stripe Press publishes The Making of Prince of Persia
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: "2020"
    date_precision: year
    id: scientific-freedom-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Donald W. Braben
    source_ids:
      - source-a7eb7465e8205b255271
    status: Book edition published
    summary: Stripe Press published a new edition of Donald W. Braben's Scientific Freedom, which argues for funding high-potential researchers without conventional peer-review and short-term justification constraints.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - republication
      - science
    title: Stripe Press republishes Scientific Freedom
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: "2020"
    date_precision: year
    id: working-in-public-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Nadia Eghbal
    source_ids:
      - source-423ad9bb88f1960b97f7
    status: Book published
    summary: Stripe Press published Nadia Eghbal's Working in Public, an analysis of modern open-source software production, maintainer labor, online communities, and the shift toward creator-centered internet work.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - open-source
    title: Stripe Press publishes Working in Public
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: "2020"
    date_precision: year
    id: works-in-progress-founded
    organizations:
      - Works in Progress
    related_events:
      - works-in-progress-joins-stripe
      - works-in-progress-print-edition-launched
    source_ids:
      - source-cf848b7deddba3534073
    status: Online publication founded
    summary: Works in Progress began as an online magazine covering economic growth, technology, policy, and practical improvements to human welfare. It initially operated independently before joining Stripe in 2022.
    tags:
      - works-in-progress
      - magazine
      - launch
    title: Works in Progress begins publishing
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: "2019"
    date_precision: year
    id: an-elegant-puzzle-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Will Larson
    source_ids:
      - source-5ae7e6ba83780e12c659
    status: Book published
    summary: Stripe Press published An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, a field guide to engineering management that addresses organizational design, team sizing, technical strategy, and managing managers.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - engineering-management
    title: Stripe Press publishes An Elegant Puzzle
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: "2019"
    date_precision: year
    id: get-together-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Bailey Richardson
      - Kevin Huynh
      - Kai Elmer Sotto
    source_ids:
      - source-a67403a0dfe10525868f
    status: Book published
    summary: Stripe Press published Get Together by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto, a practical guide to building durable communities around shared purpose and participation.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - community
    title: Stripe Press publishes Get Together
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: "2018"
    date_precision: year
    id: dream-machine-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - M. Mitchell Waldrop
      - J. C. R. Licklider
    source_ids:
      - source-2ec15e8f0c45bec3dcef
    status: Book edition published
    summary: Stripe Press published a new edition of M. Mitchell Waldrop's The Dream Machine, a history of J. C. R. Licklider and the researchers who developed interactive and networked personal computing.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - republication
      - computing-history
    title: Stripe Press republishes The Dream Machine
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: "2018"
    date_precision: year
    id: high-growth-handbook-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Elad Gil
    related_events:
      - stripe-press-book-imprint-launches
    source_ids:
      - source-005a0d1ceb2b1514026f
      - source-3bdf6f55cfb6d97a591c
    status: Book published
    summary: Stripe Press launched its book program with Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook, a collection of operating advice and interviews for leaders scaling fast-growing technology companies.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - management
      - first-title
    title: Stripe Press publishes High Growth Handbook
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: "2018"
    date_precision: year
    id: revolt-of-the-public-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Martin Gurri
    source_ids:
      - source-7f3656858147bb5d1d05
    status: Book edition published
    summary: Stripe Press published an updated edition of Martin Gurri's The Revolt of the Public, extending his analysis of how networked publics challenge the authority of hierarchical institutions.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - republication
      - institutions
    title: Stripe Press republishes The Revolt of the Public
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: "2018"
    date_precision: year
    id: stripe-press-book-imprint-launches
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Stripe Press
    related_events:
      - high-growth-handbook-published
    source_ids:
      - source-3bdf6f55cfb6d97a591c
    status: Book imprint launched
    summary: Stripe introduced Stripe Press as a publishing imprint for books about technology, organizations, and progress. High Growth Handbook was its first release, with original works and revived editions planned for the early catalog.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - imprint
      - launch
    title: Stripe launches Stripe Press as a book imprint
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: "2018"
    date_precision: year
    id: stubborn-attachments-published
    organizations:
      - Stripe Press
    people:
      - Tyler Cowen
    source_ids:
      - source-81437bb4554785e28054
    status: Book published
    summary: Stripe Press published Tyler Cowen's Stubborn Attachments, a philosophical case for sustainable economic growth, broad human rights, and decision-making that gives future generations substantial moral weight.
    tags:
      - stripe-press
      - book
      - economics
    title: Stripe Press publishes Stubborn Attachments
  - confidence: confirmed
    date: 2017-04-13
    date_precision: day
    id: increment-launches
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Increment
    related_events:
      - increment-print-subscriptions-launch
      - increment-final-issue
    source_ids:
      - source-6dff7671fdc80ed92ead
    status: Magazine launched
    summary: Stripe launched Increment, a magazine about building and operating software systems, with an inaugural issue focused on on-call work. It mixed technical practice with reporting, essays, and illustration.
    tags:
      - increment
      - magazine
      - launch
      - software-engineering
    title: Stripe launches Increment magazine
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