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Stripe's founding idea stemmed from a concrete payments problem.
Stripe's founding idea stemmed from a concrete payments problem.
Patrick describes Stripe's founding idea as grounded in a concrete, widely felt payments problem, even though the founders were not taken seriously at first.
- Speaker
- Patrick Collison
- Topic
- The Stripe story
- Source timestamp
- 10:12
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