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You sort of answered your own question here, but I'd attribute a lot of it to Stripe's leadership being willing to go back and do things again, take the time to
by rglover 6y ago
You sort of answered your own question here, but I'd attribute a lot of it to Stripe's leadership being willing to go back and do things again, take the time to get it right, and putting a heavy emphasis on developer experience (knowing their customers).
That requires an incredible amount of patience and deliberate effort—most teams either can't (resource or time constraints), or won't (feigned resource or time constraints).
- andriosr 6y agoyep, but their API is this thing mentioned all over the place, a big market diff, and I didn't see a company get even close to it. Like GCP can catch AWS in features and overall experience, Samsung get close to Apple phones, Facebook can catch Snap app, it's curious that nobody is catching Stripe.
- rglover 6y agoIt's a matter of leadership. I'd recommend checking out Patrick Collison's reading list to see what might inform their decision making (and the ethos backing the company): https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf