Stripe
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 21, 2019 by Reid Hoffman · across every show →
Everything said about Stripe, oldest first
Nov 21, 2019 negative
Hoffman passed on Stripe and Square due to PayPal 'curse of knowledge'
“You know, there are some great payments companies out there, Stripe, Square, et cetera, that I talked to very early and couldn't bring myself to kind of lean in to do, despite world-class great entrepreneurs, note to self, mistake, right? Because I was going, …”
May 3, 2022
Collison: Early Stripe paged founders if chat went unanswered over 30 seconds
“And so we wrote a bot that would just page one of us. If somebody asked a question, they didn't get a response after more than 30 seconds or something, and someone would kind of groggily, bleary-eyed wake up and, like, help them out and then go back to sleep.”