Acquisition Quote by John Collison

“Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start.”

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Stripe was very much the product of our past experiences.

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Marketplaces by their nature tend to grow faster than most other companies.

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Part of Stripe's vision is linking people better on the web.

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As long as the Internet economy continues to grow, Stripe will continue to grow.

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Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

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No batch of 10 people will have as much an influence on the company as those first 10 people.

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