How two Irish brothers started a £70bn company you've probably never heard of

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The tale of online payment firm Stripe, founded by John and Patrick Collison, shows the value of spotting a gap in the market

Stripe co-founders John and Patrick Collison.he most valuable private company in Silicon Valley is an outfit most people have never heard of – unless they are a) Irish or b) tech investors. It’s called, and this week the latest round of investments in it have given it a valuation of $95bn . It was founded in 2010 by two smart young lads from rural Ireland – the brothers John and Patrick Collison – who were then aged 19 and 21 respectively.

 

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If you have not heard of STRIPE before now you are not qualified to write this article.

If someone follows on Twitter, they'd know stripe. If the author doesn't, that's not newsworthy to be a headline.

Yeah but can they do this?

They forgot c - someone who pays attention to their transaction list.

'The most valuable private company in Silicon Valley is an outfit most people have never heard of – unless they are a) Irish or b) tech investors.' Everyone knows Stripe save for those within the writer's demographic.

One thing I'd quibble with normal people know what stripe is. If you use square, you use stripe. The big thing was it was DEVELOPER FOCUSED. It became THE software to use when you needed to integrate payments. It had the best documentation ever written.

Who hasn't heard of stripe?

Er, everyone has heard of it.

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