Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.
From John Collison
Part of Stripe's vision is linking people better on the web.
We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing.
The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.
You know the way trees break through the canopy in the rainforest and they go from having this tiny column of light to having all this light - the Internet is kind of like that.
Marketplaces by their nature tend to grow faster than most other companies.
One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps.
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