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It's predictable that every Stripe-related post will have non-Americans asking when Stripe is coming to their country. Less common or nonexistent are the comme
by runako 14y ago
It's predictable that every Stripe-related post will have non-Americans asking when Stripe is coming to their country.
Less common or nonexistent are the comments where someone posts a link to the beta Stripe clone they are building to launch in their country. Do it, at worst you'll be acquisition bait.
- ricardobeat 14y agoMost countries don't have the same facilities as the US for creating payment-related businesses (financing, engineers with expertise in the field, close to the backbone visa/mc/banks, bureaucracy). It's probably much easier for an established company to bully their way in, than for one to grow locally. That said, there are no excuses for trying, and there are exceptions; I sure hope they succeed. I'd love to work in an area as disruptive as this.
- runako 14y agoStripe is a startup. Everything you wrote applied equally to Stripe two years ago. In a year or two, a company formed today could be the equally formidable "established company" that is intimidating startups in your country.