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Stripe
Irish-American payment technology company
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How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start?
Y Combinator
Mentioned as a company whose early days were indistinguishable from other startups.
Why This Is The Perfect Time To Start A Startup
Y Combinator
A company founded by Patrick and John Collison, who are highlighted as examples of young, successful startup founders.
Do Technical Founders Need Business Co-Founders?
Y Combinator
Cited as a prominent example from the YC portfolio that was founded by technical individuals, supporting the idea that a business co-founder is not essential for success.
Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013
Y Combinator
A financial technology company that facilitates online payments, considered a disruption to traditional finance.
Don't Make These Hiring Mistakes
Y Combinator
Mentioned as another company that hired slowly at the start, contrary to some conventional wisdom, before ramping up. They reportedly had a team of 8-10 people pre-launch but only 3 people for the first year or 18 months.
Should You Follow Your Passion? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel
Y Combinator
Payment processing company whose revenue figures are used as an example of a tangible, motivating metric for startups.
The Better Customer–Startups or Big Enterprise?
Y Combinator
A company that successfully started by processing payments for other startups and grew with its customers, demonstrating a model where customers don't churn easily.
How To Earn Customers For Life
Y Combinator
Highlighted as an example of a company where the founder, Patrick Collison, directly interacted with early users. Even after an overcharging mistake, the personal apology and fix led to increased customer loyalty.
Y Combinator Is Back In Person
Y Combinator
Mentioned as an example of a successful company founded during a downturn.
YC SUS: Aaron Epstein and Eric Migicovsky give website feedback
Y Combinator
A payments platform cited as a fantastic example for its clear developer onboarding process, including readily available SDKs.
Startup Investor School Day 2 Live Stream
Y Combinator
Mentioned as a top startup with brilliant founders and impressive team, exemplifying YC's talent magnet.
YC SUS: Eric Migicovsky hosts founder office hours
Y Combinator
A payment processing platform that offers a 'Marketplace' feature, suggested as a potential solution for Wusu to handle payment processing while avoiding money transmitter licenses.
Work at a Startup Expo 2019
Y Combinator
Mentioned as a company with excellent API documentation, which ReadMe aims to emulate for its clients.
YC SUS: Kat Mañalac and Eric Migicovsky discuss Week 2 SUS Lectures
Y Combinator
A financial technology company that provides payment processing software and APIs for online transactions.
Inside The Most Powerful Startup Community In The World
Y Combinator
A financial technology company that provides payment processing software and APIs for e-commerce websites and mobile applications, which emerged from Y Combinator.
Keith Rabois - How to Hire
The Art of Hiring
A company with a philosophy about problems being 'people problems'. Also mentioned as a company where Patrick Collison works.
5 Killer Businesses On Easy Mode In 2026
My First Million
A payment processing platform that could be used for the proposed Amazon warehouse food delivery flyer experiment.