This startup will make a marble sculpture of your dog for RM47,000

A detail of Michelangelo's 16th century statue of David is seen on display at the Accademia gallery, in Florence, central Italy. Monumental Labs says it is often asked to fabricate busts or life-sized sculptures of family members and replicas of Greek statues for a clientele including wealthy founders and investors. — AP

For attendees at payment processing company Stripe Inc’s annual conference this week, it was impossible to miss: A six-foot Renaissance-style Carrara marble statue of a nude man clutching an expired Stripe test credit card, displayed in an expo hall at San Francisco’s Moscone Center.

Naturally, people snapped photos of it during lunch. Memes proliferated. And there were questions, such as whether John or Patrick Collison – Stripe’s co-founder brothers – had posed for the sculpture. (During an onstage question and answer session on Thursday, they said they were not the inspiration.)