Cordova: APIs allow startups to focus entirely on core product competencies
Christina Cordova · a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How · Jan 2, 2019 · at 1:13
Christina Cordova, Head of Business Development at Stripe, discusses how API infrastructure shifts operational requirements for software companies compared to a decade prior.
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“So maybe 1015 years ago, you used to need to have someone who knew how to do bookkeeping or accounting and payments and shipping and all of these different services to get up and running. And now you can purely focus on your core competency and like building your really great product. And thinking about how you can find these other services, whether it's via an API, open source, et cetera, to really make up for the fact that you don't have to be great at all those different things.”
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