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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.

- Patrick Collison
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

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

Presumably, what you want to do is work on something meaningful and significant with people you really admire.

The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.

If you want to hire the best people, the best people are already doing pretty impressive things. They have their life plans, their picture for what they want to be doing. To figure out a way in which those trajectories align really takes time.

Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.

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.

When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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