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Next- Bloomberg Businessweek: How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code Into a $9.2 Billion Startup “To do this, the company is beginning to move beyond payments by writing software that helps companies retool the way they incorporate, pay workers, and detect fraud. It’s part of an ambitious bid to revamp how online business has been conducted for 20 years and to give anyone with a bright idea a chance to compete.”
- The Wall Street Journal: Stripe's Valuation Nearly Doubles to $9.2 Billion “Stripe's investors think the company can capitalize on the fast growth of online payments as consumers transfer more of their offline spending to internet retailers and as Stripe continues to expand internationally.”
- Les Echos: Paiement : la licorne Stripe s’installe en France “« Stripe veut être un tremplin pour l'entrepreneuriat français, en accompagnant en particulier la croissance de la French Tech », confirme Guillaume Princen, directeur général France.”
- The New York Times: Stripe Atlas Aims to Ease the Way for Foreign Entrepreneurs “...Atlas could let start-up founders sidestep some of the bureaucratic hurdles that often hamper building a new business..”
- Forbes: How John And Patrick Collison Built Stripe Into The PayPal Of The Mobile Era “Stripe’s success at making digital payments easy is only a step toward its larger ambition: becoming the edifice upon which new forms of commerce are created.”
- The Telegraph: Stripe: the Invisible $5 Billion Startup powering the internet economy “Online commerce is the last Google-sized problem on the internet and James Allgrove thinks his company has the solution.”
- Wired: The Internet Needs a Better Way to Handle Money. This Startup Has the Key “Collison believes that eliminating barriers to the flow of funds through shared-resource marketplaces frees up these fast-growing startups to focus on building a better product.”
- Fortune: How Stripe is Powering the Campaign Donations for 2016 “‘[Presidential campaigns] are basically a form of startup,’ Patrick said in explaining the importance of flexibility and creating an easy and reliable way for customers (or donors) to fork over their money. ’They can’t afford to miss a beat or be behind for a month.’”
- Bloomberg Businessweek: Stripe Lands Apple in Quest for $720 Billion in Payments “Stripe’s partnerships with Apple and Twitter now catapult it onto a bigger stage, cementing its elite spot among Silicon Valley startups.”
- The Atlantic: Online Payment System, Stripe, Makes Its First International Move “Stripe, the online payments system that has built a reputation as the simplest way for online retailers to start accepting credit cards instantly, has just launched in Canada, its first non-US country.”
- Fast Company: Most Innovative Companies “In 2017, more than half of all Americans made an online purchase powered by payments startup Stripe.”
- Reuters: Stripe picks Dublin for new engineering hub “Stripe, which operates in 25 countries and has 1,000 employees globally, already has 100 people in the Irish capital…”
- VentureBeat: Stripe wants to modernize commerce for the internet age “'We're building the tools, APIs, and the platform to help businesses accept payments, and for new kinds of companies to build previously impossible products and services at internet scale — the kinds of things that you couldn’t do 10 years ago.'”
- Wired: Stripe wants to become a turbocharger for the Internet economy “...Founders should be able to concentrate on the essentials: develop software, sell products, do business. 'We want to give people a direct driveway to the highway,' Collison explains, 'rather than having everyone hit their own.'”
- Forbes: Every Startup Dreams Of Global Expansion -- This Company Lets You Do It Right Out Of The Box “Stripe gives the right tools and infrastructure to the people within the startups who were actually building the next generation of products in addition to those coming up with the new ideas.”
- Tech in Asia: Q&A: Stripe boss on Asian expansion and the value of building a product before a company “'In our case, we weren't looking to start a large company – we had just identified this weird problem in the world of people starting businesses but having trouble implementing payment systems.'”