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Stripe started with seven lines of code. The entire pitch was: accepting payments should not require reading a 100-page API document.
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We grew up in a village in Ireland with 100 people. There was no "tech ecosystem." We just had the internet and curiosity.
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The most important infrastructure is the infrastructure nobody thinks about. Payments, like plumbing, only gets noticed when it breaks.
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I dropped out of MIT at 19. My parents were not thrilled. But I had seen enough to know that the idea was better than the degree.
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Scientific progress is slowing down. That scares me more than any business problem. Stripe funds research because the future depends on it.