Cordova: Lyft scaled via Google Maps, Twilio, and Stripe APIs
Christina Cordova · a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How · Jan 2, 2019 · at 5:57
Christina Cordova, Head of Business Development at Stripe, explains how modern tech companies avoid building full infrastructure end-to-end by leveraging specialized APIs.
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“Rather than having to build, like, mapping and logistic services, they're integrating with Google Maps. Rather than building out, like, a push notification or phone verification system, they're using Twilio. Rather than having to build their own payment service, they're utilizing Stripe. So that way they get to bring a service like Lyft to market to, you know, hundreds of thousands of customers without having to build it end-to-end.”
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