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> (An example which is just a boggling fact about the world: what’s your finger-to-a-wind guesstimate about what percentage of credit card payments fail with error code I Don’t Know Sometimes Things Fail In Credit Card Land? Hint: it’s higher than you think. Those failed payments cost conversions at the margin. When Stripe fights that number down by a basis point, that creates value across our entire portfolio, forev…
This may seem petty but as a former designer, Stripes logo not really having a stripe in it has always really bothered me. Like... how could they not try harder to make that a focus of their branding?
This may seem petty but as a former designer, Stripes logo not really having a stripe in it has always really bothered me. Like... how could they not try harder to make that a focus of their branding?
For more insight re. Stripe, https://fs.blog/2018/05/patrick-collison/ was an excellent Knowledge Project episode talking to CEO & co-founder Patrick Collison.
This may seem petty but as a former designer, Stripes logo not really having a stripe in it has always really bothered me. Like... how could they not try harder to make that a focus of their branding?
Maybe that would have been a little too "on the nose"? I always thought that "stripe" refers to the magnetic stripe on the back of a credit card.
> (An example which is just a boggling fact about the world: what’s your finger-to-a-wind guesstimate about what percentage of credit card payments fail with error code I Don’t Know Sometimes Things Fail In Credit Card Land? Hint: it’s higher than you think. Those failed payments cost conversions at the margin. When Stripe fights that number down by a basis point, that creates value across our entire portfolio, forev…
Plenty of blue-chip startups have future founders working for them...yet it seems to me that having past founders is much more rare. An incredibly strong company endorsement.
This may seem petty but as a former designer, Stripes logo not really having a stripe in it has always really bothered me. Like... how could they not try harder to make that a focus of their branding?
> (An example which is just a boggling fact about the world: what’s your finger-to-a-wind guesstimate about what percentage of credit card payments fail with error code I Don’t Know Sometimes Things Fail In Credit Card Land? Hint: it’s higher than you think. Those failed payments cost conversions at the margin. When Stripe fights that number down by a basis point, that creates value across our entire portfolio, forev…
This may seem petty but as a former designer, Stripes logo not really having a stripe in it has always really bothered me. Like... how could they not try harder to make that a focus of their branding?
Amazon doesn't have a river in their logo.