Bridge
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Bridge was a San Francisco stablecoin-infrastructure startup founded in 2022 by Coinbase and Square alumni Zach Abrams and Sean Yu. Its API-first platform let businesses accept, store, convert and issue stablecoins without building compliance or blockchain plumbing, before Stripe acquired it in 2025 for about $1.1 billion.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Zach Abrams and Sean Yu found Bridge in San Francisco to build API-first stablecoin infrastructure.
- Acquisition
Stripe announces it will acquire Bridge for about $1.1 billion - its largest acquisition ever.
- Acquisition
The acquisition closes on February 4, 2025; Bridge becomes Stripe's stablecoin infrastructure arm.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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