Stripe Paid $7.5 Billion For OpenRouter. You Are Living In The Age Of Startups.

Stripe paid a reported $7.5 billion for OpenRouter, the router for 400+ AI models, and told investors the singularity began on January 1, 2026. Here is what Stripe saw in its own data, and what it means if you are at a startup, at an incumbent, or neither. My Links 🔗 👉🏻 Newsletter: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/ 👉🏻 X: https://x.com/natebjones 👉🏻 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nate.b.jones 👉🏻 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nate.b.jones What's really happening inside Stripe's OpenR