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I mostly just kind of move stuff around until it looks right.

We’re not coders who learned about creativity—we’re creatives who learned to code. Our mission is to keep people in the creative equation, and our promise is to help you get places you wouldn’t go alone by building tools that spark ideas, not dictate them.

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Make your future so irresistible,

it becomes inevitable.

I have an undying obsession with a lack of distraction .

What do I usually do? I find things and I found things. Things I find include tools, ideas, books, and people, which I blend and purvey. Things I’ve founded and co-founded include the Trips Festival (1966), Whole Earth Catalog (1968), Hackers Conference (1984), The WELL (1984), Global Business Network (1988), and The Long Now Foundation (1996).

Stripe partners with millions of the world’s most innovative businesses. These businesses are the result of many different inputs. Perhaps the most important ingredient is “ideas.”

Stripe Press highlights ideas that we think can be broadly useful. Some books contain entirely new material, some are collections of existing work reimagined, and others... See more