This was much better to read than typical annual letters. I'm not in this space at all so the examples were interesting and helped me appreciate the complexity of the business.
The big thing on my Stripe wishlist is for them to solve the sales tax remittance issue. I don't need Stripe to be a full on merchant of record, but there has to be something more they can do to make the sales tax part of using their service easier.
Seems sort of misleading marketing as it seems to imply 1% of GDP = 1% of transactions. By that metric there's probably 5-10 companies who each process 5%+ of world GDP - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIS_(company)
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https://gist.github.com/kepano/0153563e9cdaef3c9fb9cf997003a...