This was discussed in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17551687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17551687 To hear Patrick Collison tell it, "

This was discussed in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17551687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17551687 To hear Patrick Collison tell it, "we see that one of the main limits on Stripe's growth is the number of successful startups in the world. If we can cheaply help increase that number, it makes a lot of business sense for us to do so."