Will Gaybrick

Will Gaybrick holds a mathematics degree from Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private research university in Massachusetts, established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony legislature in 1636 and named in 1639 for early benefactor John Harvard. Its principal campuses are in Cambridge and the Allston and Longwood neighborhoods of Boston. It includes Harvard College, graduate and professional schools, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Two governing boards share oversight. Alan M. Garber was president as of October 2026, and the endowment stood at $56.9 billion at the end of fiscal 2025.Open the full entry and a law degree from Yale UniversityYale UniversityYale University is a research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Its predecessor, the Collegiate School, received a charter in 1701. Trustees chose New Haven in 1716; the institution became Yale College in 1718 and Yale University in 1887. Yale provides undergraduate, graduate and professional education and has 14 undergraduate residential colleges. As of October 2026, its president was Maurie McInnis, who took office in July 2024. In 2026, Yale expanded aid for incoming undergraduates and celebrated its 325th anniversary.Open the full entry, and has worked as a software developer and founder.⁠[1]

He worked as a software engineer at the startups Jumo and Hunch.⁠[2]

In 2011 Gaybrick joined the venture firm Thrive Capital as a general partner, working with internet businesses at all stages and in all regions, especially in e-commerce. Thrive Capital was an investor in Stripe.⁠[2][1]

In October 2015 Stripe, a payments company then last valued at $5 billion, appointed Gaybrick as its first chief financial officer, leading a 15-person finance team. Stripe CEO Patrick CollisonPatrick CollisonPatrick Collison is an entrepreneur who grew up in Ireland. In 2010 he cofounded the payments and financial infrastructure company Stripe with his brother John Collison and serves as its chief executive; he is also a cofounder of the biomedical research organization Arc Institute and has been a director of Meta since 2025.Open the full entry said the company’s top criterion was a strong grasp of its product from an engineering standpoint, adding: “There's a pattern of a CFO joining tech companies to chaperone through the IPO process, and this is not that.”⁠[2]

As CFO he oversaw Stripe’s financial operations, including economic strategy and forecasting, financial planning and analysis, and treasury.⁠[1]

In June 2023, interviewed by Karen Webster of PYMNTS as Stripe’s President of Product and Business, Gaybrick said Stripe’s work is “all about helping users model and orchestrate complex commercial systems that are highly regulated,” and that “One-click checkout — and maybe even ‘no-click’ checkout, with biometrics, is coming our way.”⁠[3]

On August 17, 2026, the a16zAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry channel released “Tokens Are the New Dollars | Stripe's Will Gaybrick & David GeorgeDavid George (a16z)David George is a venture capitalist and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). After joining from General Atlantic in 2019, he built and leads a16z’s growth-stage investing practice, leading or participating in investments in companies such as SpaceX, OpenAI, Stripe, Roblox and Databricks.Open the full entry,” in which Andreessen Horowitz general partner David George talked with Gaybrick about how AI is changing Stripe’s products, teams and view of internet commerce. The description introduced him as President of Product & Business at Stripe.⁠[4]

Topics listed in the description include what Stripe is today, the explosion of AI-company signups, Stripe’s internal coding agents, “Minions,” scaling from about 1,200 to 7,000 pull requests a week, building versus cutting costs, agentic commerce and its missing primitives, stablecoins and Stripe as a global money movement platform, and scaling taste at Stripe.⁠[4]

Stripe’s newsroom leadership list names Gaybrick as President, Technology and Business, listed after co-founders Patrick Collison and John CollisonJohn CollisonJohn Collison (born 1990) is an Irish entrepreneur who co-founded the online payments company Stripe, where he is president, with his older brother Patrick Collison, Stripe’s chief executive. He grew up in County Tipperary and, while still at secondary school, co-founded Auctomatic with his brother, which was sold for $5 million in 2008; he entered Harvard University in 2009, later left, and in 2010 founded Stripe with Patrick. In March 2017 Forbes named him the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. Since June 2025 he has hosted Stripe’s podcast Cheeky Pint, and in October 2026 he was nominated to Microsoft’s board of directors.Open the full entry.⁠[5]

Stripe: Official website: https://stripe.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[5]

X: Public account: https://x.com/gaybrick (opens in a new window).⁠[4]