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Stripe’s early wall after wall and the API outage nobody noticed

Patrick Collison (Stripe) recounts bad moments for the company. Being told by a bank there was "no possibility" they’d ever work with them. For two years, they hit wall after wall - most people thought Stripe was a bad idea.

Six months in, their API went down for 8 hours. Payments froze. Patrick feared it might kill the company. But… no one noticed. No complaints. No outrage... or maybe we don’t matter yet.

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