Stripe in Canada

Re:Stripe in Canada by kurtvarner on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @12:00PM (#4544112)

In many ways, launching in Canada is a big step for us—going from 1 to 2 is often harder than going from 2 to n—but it’s only a small piece of what we have in mind. We grew up in countries from Honduras to Kenya, and a large part of why we’re so eager to build Stripe is to help those outside the US to participate as first-class citizens in the internet economy.

I'm glad they address this before people complain about Stripe only moving to Canada.

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Re:Stripe in Canada by batgaijin on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @05:18PM (#4545637)

I'm very curious to how much time they have budgeted for this - has this been consuming 50% of their time? 75%?

It's really hard for me to tell if this was a real problem for them, or if they were just working on other stuff because the competition is still non-existent.

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Re:Stripe in Canada by vitno on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @05:25PM (#4545662)

Moving to other countries is crazy difficult. They have to deal with a whole host of legal BS every time.

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Re:Stripe in Canada by gbelote on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @11:42PM (#4546834)

It's probably tough to measure. I imagine most of the bottlenecking comes from communicating with external entities, which may not scale well by adding more Stripers to the task. I would be surprised if they could just pull a developer aside and say "Joe, you're off feature X. Go call up Canada and make things happen!"

While they probably don't feel external pressure due to lack of competition, I doubt they're hotdoggin' it because they are leaving money on the table.

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