Interview with Patrick Collison – Co-Founder, Stripe [audio] (fromscratchradio.com)

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Thanks for this

Listened to it this morning, thanks. I wasn't aware the founders of Stripe were so young until very recently.

Thank you to all the guys at stripe, your product is great and very helpful

If you're craving more interview with him, there's a pretty interesting podcast with patrick hosted by vox's Ezra Klein. it was useful for giving lots of context to somebody whose tweets i had spent a fair amount of time reading but who i didn't really have a grasp on (other than knowing about stripe): https://soundcloud.com/panoply/eks045-patrick-collison-ads

I am confused about one thing in the interview. He implied that when they launched they didnt have a backend integration with a merchant account (assuming that is how all this stuff works) ... so you would eventually get your money. (implying there was a manual step that required human intervention)

It sounds like the beta was only half built, but I am surprised that it didnt need to be 100% there for it to process payments.

I'm just confused.

I love what Stripe has done / is doing with Atlas. I can barely even explain what a pain it is just to open a US bank account with a foreign address. If they can succeed on a broader level, it will democratize online commerce like WordPress did for online publishing.