Thompson: Cross-border Stripe transfers require major code changes
Simon Thompson · Startup Acquisition Stories with Simon Thompson, Founder of Podseeker · Nov 14, 2023 · at 18:19
Simon Thompson, founder of Podseeker, discusses operational challenges encountered during the technical asset transfer of his Australian startup to an international buyer.
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“Transferring a Stripe account from one country to another, if you're transferring it within country, it's relatively straightforward, but from one country to another is wildly complicated and you need to make like a lot of code changes. And it's a really heavy lift and quite annoying.”
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