Patrick Collison
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first heard Aug 2026
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I remember literally where we were on the road.
And I remember we said to each other, which was, yeah, you know, we might as well, because it probably won't be that hard.
You might start the next stripe.
And yes, beware of these ultimate yak shaves.
We thought we could do it on the side while in college.
It would take a couple of months.
And that was almost 17 years ago.
Yeah, so we started working on Stripe kind of seriously in the... Well, we started working the week after that startup school, but in college, it wasn't full-time.
We started working full-time the summer of 2010.
We launched publicly September 2011, so almost two years after the first lines of code after the repo was started.
And yeah, waiting two years to launch seems... I mean, if we were going to YC meetings every week, I think we'd have been bludgeoned on the head.
Look, in many domains, that probably is the wrong thing to do.
In our domain, to answer your last question, because we had to do so much stuff around security and partners and money movement and infrastructure and reliability and all the things, we didn't feel like we could scale a really good self-serve experience without getting a lot of the preconditions and the infrastructure in place.
I think the thing that saved us and meant that it wasn't a total walk in the wilderness is we had production users almost from the very beginning.
So, first lines of code,
in fall of 2009, we got our first live production user in January of 2010, so like two months into working or whatever.
And it did very little.
It was very larval and incomplete.
And our first production customer was Ross Boucher at a company called 280 North.
And all it could do was charge a card.
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