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How Stripe Won Online Payments by Thinking Like Developers
In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack how Stripe transformed online payments by treating developers as its primary customers. They trace Stripe's origin from the 2011 Y Combinator batch, where Patrick and John Collison wrote a seven-line API that replaced clunky payment gateways. The conversation covers Stripe's early bet on documentation quality, its controversial decision to support bitcoin in 2014, and its later push into financial infrastructure like Stripe Capital and Treasury. They discuss how the company maintained developer loyalty even as it expanded into enterprise sales…
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