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How Stripe Processed One Trillion Dollars
In this debut episode of Startup Stories, Lucas and Luna unpack the moment Stripe crossed $1 trillion in total payment volume — a milestone that reveals how the company quietly became the financial plumbing for the internet. They walk through Stripe's origin story: how Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison dropped out of Harvard and MIT to build developer-first payments, why their bet on APIs over merchant accounts was contrarian in 2010, and what the trillion-dollar figure means for the broader payments ecosystem. Lucas explains the network effects that make Stripe sticky — the more…
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