STRIPE

We think of ourselves as the Amazon Web Services of payments. We want to be the infrastructure layer for internet commerce.

The way I think about Stripe's mission: if we can increase the GDP of the internet by even a tiny fraction, that's a huge deal for the world.

Really successful people say no to almost everything.

The hard part isn't building the product. The hard part is building a company that continuously builds great products.

Speed is the ultimate feature. If your product is 10x faster, it's almost certainly 10x better.

The world is not yet fully wired. Most of the economic activity that will happen on the internet hasn't started yet.