Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018)

Hey, so before we start the show, I want to tell you about today's episode, and it's about software, a seemingly simple payment system that was actually so complicated that none of the big tech companies wanted to take it on. And the two guys who did Were recent transplants from Ireland. Two brothers, both college dropouts, and as you're about to hear, both super, super smart. This episode first ran about two years ago. It is one of my favorites. I know I say that a lot, but it really is. I hope you enjoy it. We built the first prototype back in October of 2009.

And it w it really was apparent to us that kinda it wouldn't be easy. Like i it w it was not gonna be possible for it to be some sort of, well, you know, we Code Furiously for two months, we launch this thing and then it's off to the races. Like From when we started working on it full time to when we publicly launched was almost two years. And so yeah, gonna be hard, but it is actually Possible. Yeah.

From NPR, it's how I built this, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. Guy Roz and on today's show how two brothers from Ireland Wroven lines of computer code. Built it into a nine billion dollar business. So the holy grail for a venture capitalist is the elusive unicorn.

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