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“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.”

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John Collison, born in 1990, has an unknown profession. Due to limited information, his specific life experience and contributions are unclear. more

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