“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
“Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.” HardOnlineStripes Author:John Collison
“When a country doesn't have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the idea is that by providing better infrastructure, by linking the Internet economically, by making it easier for these online businesses to exist, it'll make the web better.” IdeasCountryEconomicInternetEasierHarmOnlineProvidingInfrastructureStripes 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
“With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.” PeopleRealCapacityToolsValuableOnlineStripesValuable ThingsOffline 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
