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Paypal is awesome. It's 2012 and I'm still not aware of any other company that allows me to sign up (for free) and start taking payments straight away (for arb
by whatusername 14y ago
Paypal is awesome.
It's 2012 and I'm still not aware of any other company that allows me to sign up (for free) and start taking payments straight away (for arbitrary items no less). See also: http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
(Note: Stripe have a schlep blindness in International Transactions. I still can't sign up for Stripe. Last Week I was recommending a friend use paypal)
- justsee 14y agoYes, but if Raganwald is laying into Google, I'd imagine he'd place a PayPal in the same category. Raising the Musk example was illustrating the shlepping he did before embarking on great things.
- antidaily 14y agoWell even if it does suck now (I think it does), it didnt suck when Musk sold it.
- zt 14y agoI work at Stripe and we are working hard on rolling out our products internationally. I am sorry you cannot use it yet and that you can't recommend us to your friends yet. It takes time to do right--it's a schlep--as we want to make sure that the experience is as dead-simple everywhere. "Fixing payments", as PG put it in the Schlep blindness essay, involves working with new banking partners and new back-end infrastructures to make it as easy in every country.