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e.l.f. Cosmetics: Joey Shamah. The Dollar Store Formula That Built a Cosmetics Giant Jun 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:38 Guy Raz Okay, so this was, and I'm sure there was, like, multiple steps, and because this isn't, it wasn't Stripe, there wasn't, it was just hard to get a credit card in.

Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse Oct 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:42 Guy Raz But again, early days, this is pre-Stripe, pre-internet security.

Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith May 26, 2025 · 1 mention

Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie May 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:48 Chris Best And we had no, I had no idea what to expect, but he made like six figures his first day through this like duct taped, like stripe setup that I had built in the preceding weeks.

Poshmark: Manish Chandra Feb 26, 2024 · 1 mention

Building a decarbonization army with Shashank Samala of Heirloom Feb 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:40 Shashank Samala So today we have customers like Microsoft and Stripe meta who are buying removals from us to help them reach net zero.

HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman Sep 29, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:04 Guy Raz Sam is the former president of the legendary tech incubator Y Combinator, the accelerator program that helped launch Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, Storedash, and so many others.
  • ▶ 14:44 Guy Raz All right, so you became president of Y Combinator, and lots of YC companies have been on How I Built This in the past, as I think you know, including Stripe, and Airbnb, and Reddit, and Coinbase, and lots of others.

WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg Mar 21, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:15:06 Matt Mullenweg Companies like Stripe, SpaceX, uh, they've gone to a hundred billion plus valuations as private companies, so you don't need to go public anymore.

Coinbase: Brian Armstrong Nov 15, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:45 Guy Raz I mean, this is, this is how Stripe and, you know, these kinds of processing companies make money.

Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam Jan 11, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 51:01 Sam Yam And so that would get, uh, saved, you know, very securely by the way, because we were working at Stripe, but we hadn't built any of the logic to actually handle the processing of the funds.
  • ▶ 59:36 Guy Raz Paystripe and whoever was, yeah.

Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018) Mar 9, 2020 · 37 mentions

  • ▶ 2:06 Guy Raz Well, welcome to today's story, because Stripe is basically a unicorn with extra whipped cream and cherries on top. 12 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:23 Patrick Collison And so I, you know, I didn't consciously think about it this way at the time, either kind of when starting Stripe or whatever, but basically all the things that I've worked on kind of
  • ▶ 10:39 Guy Raz And I should just preface this by saying both of you would drop out and never return, um, but in that, in that brief moment of time where, where John, you were at Harvard, and Patrick, you were at MIT, uh, is that really, this is around,… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:12 John Collison and I now travel to a decent number of other places, and Stripe has offices around the world, and 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:34 Guy Raz When we come back, how John and Patrick stayed bullish on Stripe, and how they finally got it off the ground.
  • ▶ 21:12 Guy Raz The brothers are working full-time on Stripe, and they start to look around for investors. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:04 John Collison So what's happening underneath the hood when you use any business powered by Stripe is, you know, you probably type in your credit card. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:05 Patrick Collison And so back in the early, in the very earliest days, yeah, those companies were pretty small, but some of them started to, you know, become pretty big, like Lyft and Shopify and so on became customers of Stripe. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:52 Patrick Collison I think it's, um, an amorphous combination for any of these products, and I don't mean to single stripe out, for any great product, some amorphous combination of sort of the ethos and the culture and the people and sort of the work style…
  • ▶ 31:16 John Collison It's been my experience that people pay a huge amount of attention to the headline numbers of, of Silicon Valley companies, and so, you know, Stripe is a company that's been valued in, in fundraising at, at, at, at, you know, 9.2 billion… 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:35 Guy Raz That's Patrick and John Collison, founders of Stripe. 3 times in the scene

Stripe: Patrick and John Collison May 7, 2018 · 36 mentions

  • ▶ 2:09 Guy Raz Well, welcome to today's story, because Stripe is basically a unicorn with extra whipped cream and cherries on top. 11 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:30 Patrick and John Collison And so I, you know, I didn't consciously think about it this way at the time, either kind of when starting Stripe or whatever, but basically all the things that I've worked on kind of
  • ▶ 10:47 Guy Raz And I should just preface this by saying both of you would drop out and never return, um, but in that, in that brief moment of time where, where John, you were at Harvard, and Patrick, you were at MIT, uh, is that really, this is around… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:20 Patrick and John Collison and I now travel to a decent number of other places, and Stripe has offices around the world, and 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:43 Guy Raz When we come back, have John and Patrick stayed bullish on Stripe, and how they finally got it off the ground?
  • ▶ 21:19 Guy Raz The brothers are working full-time on Stripe, and they start to look around for investors.
  • ▶ 22:22 Guy Raz So what did Peter Thiel see in Stripe? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:11 Patrick and John Collison And so back in the early, in the very earliest days, yeah, those companies were pretty small, but some of them started to, you know, become pretty big, like Lyft and Shopify and so on became customers of Stripe.
  • ▶ 28:00 Patrick and John Collison Whereas we thought that Stripe would only be possible, and it would only be possible to do it well. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:59 Patrick and John Collison I think it's, um, an amorphous combination for any of these products, and I don't mean to single stripe out, for any great product, some amorphous combination of sort of the ethos and the culture and the people and sort of the work style…
  • ▶ 31:23 Patrick and John Collison It's been my experience that people pay a huge amount of attention to the headline numbers of Silicon Valley companies, and so, you know, Stripe is a company that's been valued in fundraising at, you know, 9.2 billion dollars, or what have… 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:47 Guy Raz Patrick and John Collison, founders of Stripe. 2 times in the scene
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