How Stripe Built A $35 Billion Company

Channel: Business Casual
Uploaded by Business Casual on 20191022
Categories: Education
Tags: Stripe, Stripe Valuation, Stripe Funding, Stripe IPO, John Collison, Patrick Collison, Stripe Payment, Stripe Payment Processing, Payment Processing, Stripe Payment Fees

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How Stripe Built a $35 Billion Company

The video explores how Stripe transformed online payments and scaled into one of the most valuable FinTech startups by positioning itself as the infrastructure and "middleman" of internet commerce.

1. The Early Origins of the Collison Brothers

Teen Entrepreneurs: Gr

owing up in rural Ireland, brothers Patrick and John Collison were exposed to entrepreneurship early on, learning software development during their early teens [00:41].

First Multi-Million Dollar Sale: At ages 19 and 17, they created Auctomatic, a management software for eBay sellers [01:20]. Within 10 months, they launched, tested, and sold the company for $5 million [01:27].

2. Identifying the Pain Point in E-Commerce

The

App Store Contrast: While attending Harvard and MIT, the brothers paid their tuition by developing iOS applications [01:44]. They realized how effortless payment collection was on Apple’s App Store compared to standard web e-commerce, which felt stuck in the 1970s [01:52].

Friction for Web Startups: Setting up merchant accounts and handling currencies, compliance, and payment routing diverted substantial focus and capital

away from a startup's core product [02:10].

3. Launching and Scaling Stripe

Building /dev/payments: In late 2009, the brothers dropped out of university and moved to Buenos Aires to build a developer-friendly payment processing API, originally named /dev/payments [02:47].

Y Combinator & Major Backing: Y Combinator founder Paul Graham funded the company [03:49]. During their 2010 beta, they attracted prominent angel investor

s, including PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel [04:05].

Public Launch & Valuation Boom: Stripe launched publicly in September 2011 [04:22]. Following major investments from Sequoia Capital and Amex Ventures [04:30], Stripe’s valuation surged from $1.7 billion to $3.4 billion in 2014, eventually reaching $35 billion by 2019 [04:38].

4. Product Line Expansion

Stripe expanded beyond basic payment acceptance into a comprehensive fi

nancial stack:

Stripe Radar: A machine-learning fraud detection system that reduced credit card fraud by up to 25% [05:05].

Stripe Atlas: A platform allowing global founders to quickly incorporate and launch a business in the U.S. [05:13].

Stripe Issuing: A service enabling businesses to create, manage, and white-label custom credit cards [05:22].

5. Market Influence

By 2018, approximately 50% of all Americans who purchased

something online transacted through Stripe's infrastructure [06:05].

Rather than positioning itself as a direct consumer brand like PayPal or Apple Pay, Stripe focused on providing backend infrastructure for major platforms, including Amazon, Facebook, and Lyft [06:12].

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@devpatel7206

Anyone other than me who was totally unaware of stripe ?

@whut9245

your demographic of viewers must be rich as hell on average to be getting a sponsor that requires a minimum 10k investment

@abdikafarabdirahman8414

Stripe won because their primarily users were developers. All you have to do is copy a view lines of code and your payment process is done. That is magical.

@Fionan95

I live in the Irish home town these boys grew up in, and the funny thing is our City Council Enterprise Board rejected their idea when they asked for funding as teenagers. Moral of the Story? Don't let old people make decisions about tech start-ups !!

@BusyBodyVisa

I'm so grateful to stripe because they finally gave paypal some real competition. Paypal can no longer be the tyrant that they were before.

@TheBejbiborn

Some has said it already, but I wanted to really stress this:

@nicknderitu6013

As little as $10k .... I feel so poor

@Jon-Banker

"as little as $10k" That's $9,900 more than my budget.

@sebastianmolina344

If you ever built an e-commerce store or website that collects payment you’ll be well familiar wit stripe.

@jeromediktas3414

You should do more videos about internet companies! This one was awesome!!

@MAGNATEOfficial

Am I the only one wondering why the hell did they randomly move to Argentina?

@AnyFactor

They are the most fascinating founder brothers in tech

@LesterDiaz

Amazing growth, I use stripe in my own business and they’ve made it super simple to get paid.

@Nedwin

Stripe--> Radar --> Atlas --> Issuing. The 2 young billonaire-bro's have inspired all of us, the adults.