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Peter Thiel invested $200,000 in Stripe on the spot
“But Peter being such a, sort of, you know, an inveterate contrarian was quite sympathetic to this case, and decided on the spot to make, you know, a fairly material investment of 200,000 dollars.”
Patrick Collison: Early investors rejected Stripe's business model, not its team
“Most investors said no, but the reason was much more, or reasons were much more because they just thought it was a bad idea rather than the kind of bad people to execute it.”
Patrick Collison: Developers consistently integrated Stripe in an afternoon and launched next day
“We had lots of stories of people integrating payments in an afternoon or an evening, and then launching their business the next day. And that just worked consistently. That was a big break from what had prevailed before.”
Collison: Stripe Co-Developed Payout Tech to Help Lyft Pay Drivers
“So in Lyft's case, for example, they wanted to not just charge their customers, but they wanted to pay their drivers and there was no product that enabled a really good driver payment experience, and so we've kind of co-evolved with them to enable the best End…”