💳 Stripe

“This is something I was thinking about when I was interviewing Patrick. In some sense, when he started Stripe, payments was a super crowded industry. There’s PayPal, there’s obviously Visa, Mastercard. But, in another sense, there’s something strange in terms of domains you think of as crowded and totally competitive. There are usually totally obv... See more

Stripe’s slogan, “Increase the GDP of the internet” points at a far loftier vision and more ambitious goal than the mundanity of payment processing. And this is reinforced in both much of Patrick Collison’s projects outside of Stripe as well as initiatives like Stripe Press.

Internally, our first Operating Principle is “Users First”. Some companies are technology-first:  they do some R&D, invent interesting tech, and figure out how to commercialize it. That’s a very  viable and successful approach for many companies. But Stripe is lucky enough to serve  millions of smart, discerning, and demanding bu... See more

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