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Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by tylerrobinson on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:50PM (#19423291)
Maybe that would have been a little too "on the nose"? I always thought that "stripe" refers to the magnetic stripe on the back of a credit card.
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Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by mountainentity on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:05PM (#19423444)
I listened to Tim Ferriss podcast with Patrick Collison. They chose stripe as stripe.com was either available or cheap...
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Re:What Working at Stripe Has Been Like by alphagrep12345 on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:26PM (#19423662)
Yeah, that's true. Look at this quora answer for more info - https://www.quora.com/How-did-Stripe-come-up-with-its-name/a...
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