Take companies through the entire journey, from incorporation to going public.

Augment or replace large portions of finance teams with software, improving profits for its businesses.

Because of Stripe, internet businesses barely have to worry about payments.

Longer-term, Stripe can do any of the following:

Make equity investments in businesses based on its data, a la Tencent.

Forecast with a greater degree of accuracy than any internal model for a more complex and wide-ranging set of companies than something like Facebook’s Prophet.

Advise governments on how to leapfrog the banking system. Africa is a noticeably large hole in the map, and one that Sqaure’s Jack Dorsey was planning on physically inhabiting himself until his board stopped him.

In a decade, Stripe has gone from accepting payments, which is now a commodity business, to providing an increasingly comprehensive suite of products that make it easy to start and run an online business.

Provide access to increasingly large amounts of non-dilutive capital.