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You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.

~John Collison

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The values we developed were instrumental in gaining a competitive advantage.

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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.

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Stripe was very much the product of our past experiences.

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With PayPal, you have to send people over to their website... whereas with Stripe, we offer a way to integrate payments into the website, on the website or into a mobile app. That is what all the best businesses care about, so we make it very easy, very fast, very simple and very cheap to do this.

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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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Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way you'd 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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Elon Musk is a cool cookie.

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For Stripe, being inventive is just about applying the right solutions from other areas.

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You could use many adjectives to describe Silicon Valley; I don't think 'normal' is one of them.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Businessman

Born: Unknown

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