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“Our initial idea with Stripe was that for people like us - those building apps and websites - it was incredibly difficult to take payments. So with an open mind, and maybe a useful lack of knowledge about the industry, we started building a payment product.”

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I think there is this very nice, if at times dangerous, untethered optimism that exists in Silicon Valley.

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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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