I've learned over the years that most people overlook the bottom part of the iceberg. Stripe nailed everything else about the business. They made everything th

I've learned over the years that most people overlook the bottom part of the iceberg. Stripe nailed everything else about the business. They made everything that sucked about old credit card processors good. It wasn't just the transaction. It was everything that led up to it (simple integration, debugging, good dev documentation, sane APIs, etc) and everything after. Eventually, they even made the transactions better with alternative methods, fraud, and recurring payment pass-through.