Coming from Ireland, its quite hard to do a startup because youre culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, its much ….

Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product….

When a country doesn't have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the idea is that by providing better infrastructure,….

Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it really helps you have an advantage….

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and….

One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the st….

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web..

My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an ele….

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online..

In the desktop world, you could build a successful business where a consumer only came back to you once or maybe twice a year. I don't think you can ….

With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. ….

Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way youd do this is using….