I think they were trying to get payments going for a startup idea and were trying to get payments integrated. Or at least that's the founding story. "In early

I think they were trying to get payments going for a startup idea and were trying to get payments integrated. Or at least that's the founding story. "In early 2010 John and Patrick began working on Stripe together. At the time Patrick was working on several side projects and they debated why it was so difficult to accept payments on the web. They sought to solve the problem and see if it was possible to make it simple - really simple. The next 6-months they played with it, showed it to friends, and saw how people interacted with it, iterating along the way." [1] https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/the-collison-brothers-and-story-behind-the-founding-of-stripe/ https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/the-collison-brothers-and-...