“Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way youd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.” WayEasyAcceptingEffectsBuildingStructureComplexesCreditCardsLegacyExpensiveOnlineCommerceBankingChillInfrastructurePaymentCredit CardStripesE Commerce Author: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.” YearsFirstsLongMadeBuildingProductsLong TimeCustomersAcquisitionStripes Author:John Collison
“Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.” PeopleIdeasTechnologyBuildingStartingPaymentStripesBuilding Things Author:John Collison
