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Next- Tech.eu: Stripe launches its Connect product for startups in UK, Ireland and Nordics “[Stripe Connect] will give British firms access to more than a billion buyers and sellers in 25 countries.”
- The Wall Street Journal: Online Payments Upstart Stripe Launching Business in Cuba “The company was chosen to accompany the delegation after White House officials met with a group of Cuban startup entrepreneurs in Havana in recent weeks...The group said it could use Stripe’s service to help their ventures accept payments from customers outside of Cuba, which led the White House to invite Stripe.”
- Les Echos: Paiement : la licorne Stripe s’installe en France “« Stripe veut être un tremplin pour l'entrepreneuriat français, en accompagnant en particulier la croissance de la French Tech », confirme Guillaume Princen, directeur général France.”
- The New York Times: Stripe Atlas Aims to Ease the Way for Foreign Entrepreneurs “...Atlas could let start-up founders sidestep some of the bureaucratic hurdles that often hamper building a new business..”
- Forbes: How John And Patrick Collison Built Stripe Into The PayPal Of The Mobile Era “Stripe’s success at making digital payments easy is only a step toward its larger ambition: becoming the edifice upon which new forms of commerce are created.”
- The Telegraph: Stripe: the Invisible $5 Billion Startup powering the internet economy “Online commerce is the last Google-sized problem on the internet and James Allgrove thinks his company has the solution.”
- Wired: The Internet Needs a Better Way to Handle Money. This Startup Has the Key “Collison believes that eliminating barriers to the flow of funds through shared-resource marketplaces frees up these fast-growing startups to focus on building a better product.”
- Fortune: How Stripe is Powering the Campaign Donations for 2016 “‘[Presidential campaigns] are basically a form of startup,’ Patrick said in explaining the importance of flexibility and creating an easy and reliable way for customers (or donors) to fork over their money. ’They can’t afford to miss a beat or be behind for a month.’”
- CNBC: The Startup that's out to Conquer Mobile Payments “Stripe's international expansion is focused on both helping U.S. customers collect payments in more currencies and providing tools to businesses in countries where online payment options hardly exist.”
- Bloomberg Businessweek: Stripe Lands Apple in Quest for $720 Billion in Payments “Stripe’s partnerships with Apple and Twitter now catapult it onto a bigger stage, cementing its elite spot among Silicon Valley startups.”
- Re/Code: Stripe Merchants Will Soon Be Able to Accept Bitcoin Payments “The decision to build an integration for bitcoin payments is more about the company’s mission to increase the amount of commerce transacted online than it is a bet that bitcoin will be a crucial payment method years from now.”
- The Financial Times: Payments start-up Stripe adds support for more than 130 currencies “‘It’s easy to send a packet of information anywhere in the world, but sending money isn’t so easy,’ he says. ‘It’s a question of the economic infrastructure that’s underneath the web. We personally think that’s a really important problem–you have great connectivity at the information level but not at the payments level.’”
- Fast Company: Hiring Brilliant Women Engineers Starts With The Job Listing “At Stripe, ‘We do want to have a diverse team. We make a large effort to keep our eyes open and do active outreach,’ Feng says. ‘I think in terms of being able to hire women, our culture has played a large part in that.’”
- The Atlantic: Online Payment System, Stripe, Makes Its First International Move “Stripe, the online payments system that has built a reputation as the simplest way for online retailers to start accepting credit cards instantly, has just launched in Canada, its first non-US country.”