Building any type of company requires a huge amount of active effort from many different people. The idea that a great product will make and grow a company by i

Building any type of company requires a huge amount of active effort from many different people. The idea that a great product will make and grow a company by itself is basically engineering fantasy. In the case of Stripe, they've worked their asses off not just building the product, but also raising a ton of money which in turn they used to market the crap out of their product. Without that money and the marketing, even with the same product, Stripe would have most likely already failed.