How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe
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Re: How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe
#2If you are wondering how Stripe could even start with just 7 lines of code, it's a bit misleading:
With Stripe, all a startup had to do was add seven lines of code to its site to handle payments: What once took weeks was now a cut-and-paste job.
Re: How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe
#3If you are wondering how Stripe could even start with just 7 lines of code, it's a bit misleading: With Stripe, all a startup had to do was add seven lines of code to its site to handle payments: What once took weeks was now a cut-and-paste job. I.E. the simplicity of the Stripe platform (taking only 7 lines of code for developers) was how they succeeded, not that they built a startup at first with just 7 lines of co…
Thanks for un-click-baiting this.
Re: How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe
#4~12 years ago, it was Patrick Collison that was named young scientist of the year for developing a dialect of Lisp called Croma:
http://lemonodor.com/archives/001038.html
I'm glad to see he has continued to do well.
Re: How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe
#5The biggest thing for me with Stripe was that I no longer needed a card redemption agreement. Before that I had to deal with both my bank and the provider and it was a bureaucratic mess.
I still wonder how Stripe managed to get around that.
Re: How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe
#6If you are wondering how Stripe could even start with just 7 lines of code, it's a bit misleading: With Stripe, all a startup had to do was add seven lines of code to its site to handle payments: What once took weeks was now a cut-and-paste job. I.E. the simplicity of the Stripe platform (taking only 7 lines of code for developers) was how they succeeded, not that they built a startup at first with just 7 lines of co…
Thanks. There's a misleading headline if I ever saw one
Re: How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe
#7The biggest thing for me with Stripe was that I no longer needed a card redemption agreement. Before that I had to deal with both my bank and the provider and it was a bureaucratic mess. I still wonder how Stripe managed to get around that.
There is an analogous agreement, but it's hidden behind 'terms and conditions' which you click through without reading.
Re: How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe
#8If you are wondering how Stripe could even start with just 7 lines of code, it's a bit misleading: With Stripe, all a startup had to do was add seven lines of code to its site to handle payments: What once took weeks was now a cut-and-paste job. I.E. the simplicity of the Stripe platform (taking only 7 lines of code for developers) was how they succeeded, not that they built a startup at first with just 7 lines of co…
I'm thinking for the layman who doesnt code which Bloomberg also targets, this distinction is pretty negligible so in a way its not totally clickbait because its still seven lines of code, for developers it seems to be the code you write whereas the title could go anyway
Also really appreciate Stripe, registered for Delaware with them
Re: How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe
#9> Over the past couple of weeks, Stripe began handling a large, though undisclosed, portion of Amazon’s transactions. Neither company will address the scope of the deal—which was only revealed by Stripe’s addition of Amazon’s logo to its website—but it could help Stripe greatly increase its transaction volume.
So, reading into this, amazon presumably invested in stripe, then gave it some transaction traffic to juice the numbers to make an S-1 look better?
Re: How the Collison brothers turned ‘seven lines of code’ into Stripe
#10~12 years ago, it was Patrick Collison that was named young scientist of the year for developing a dialect of Lisp called Croma: http://lemonodor.com/archives/001038.html I'm glad to see he has continued to do well.
That's really interesting. How did you know that?