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It's a common case with high-growth startups where the co-founding team breaks up - generally, it's hard to get the team to persist. It's easy to stick with it when you have known the person for decades either as a friend or family.

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It's inevitable that tough situations will come up, but it's how you react that is the challenge.

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One phrase we use at Stripe is, 'Most tech companies are building cars. Stripe is building roads.'

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I grew up in very rural Ireland. The Internet was kind of a connection to the greater world. It had a lot of significance.

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It was very clear, if you grew up in the middle of Ireland, just how potent a force the Internet was and could be. I was always seduced by the potency of computers and the possibilities for which they could be leveraged.

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The promise of the Internet is around this transcendence of physical geography. To a large degree, the Internet has delivered on that promise, but when it comes to the movement of money and the ability to start and operate a business or needing to purchase from a business, it really hasn't.

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There is a higher degree of operational excellence and rigor demanded of Stripe than of most companies.

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There is really an issue in Silicon Valley with companies getting a bit ahead of themselves in terms of their own self-perception of their own success.

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'Entrepreneur' is a long, fancy French word, but it didn't seem like something you aspire to. It seemed normal, because whatever your parents do seems normal.

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When you talk to people who are old, some wish they had enjoyed themselves more, but not many wish they had wasted more time.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Businessman

Born: September 9th, 1988

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