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@edwinarbus

edwin

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This is my last week at Stripe. 🫡 I’m grateful for the past ~9 years—I learned a lot, met a bunch of smart people, and we were able to ship many things that I’m proud of. And as somebody who has a small snapshot of what’s to come, I’ll be cheering on from the sidelines for the

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@edwinarbus

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2 years

Introducing Stripe Imprinter

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8 months

apple event next week

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4 years

Whoa! One of the iconic Painted Ladies in SF is for sale. $2.75 mil. But what does it look like on the inside? Oh...

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5 years

Today I gave a lightning talk on emdashes and endashes and passed out these custom M&Ms. I was so pleased with myself.

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2 months

iPhone supports Game Boy emulators now 😲😲😲

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1 year

on a japanese train. u?

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10 months

eight years at stripe ✅

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3 years

Just discovered the hand holding foot emoji in our Slack.

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1 year

Welcome to town, @ycombinator S23! ☀️

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5 years

. @Stripe is hiring 100 remote engineers. 💻🗺 The first 14 open roles are on @remote_ok now:

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1 year

@wigger @stripe @collision @patrickc @dps @stripesupport Hey, I work at Stripe. Sorry for the issues. We’re digging into this now.

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3 years

The @Stripe team has helped 90+ startups get into @ycombinator since we started assisting with applications three years ago. Applications for S2021 are due in 25 days—and if you'd like any advice or help, get in touch with us: .

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3 years

No, but maybe would be interested.

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3 years

How it started—six years ago today. Incredibly grateful that @stripe took a chance on this weird, rando kid from West Philly.

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3 years

me & my @github contribution graph

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2 months

dumpling time dumpling story dumpling home dumpling house dumpling union dumpling park dumpling zone dumpling kitchen dumpling baby dumpling dynasty SF I’m begging you please stop!!

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2 years

A post I shared on my internal Stripe blog: Seven years ago today, I walked through the front door of @stripe . @patrickc held the door open for me—literally and figuratively. He was simultaneously walking and reading a huge white book and welcomed me in.

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2 years

wow i’m mr manager

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1 year

Went to a sushi place in Tokyo. Signed their guest book and saw this. The co-owner said their tenth customer was from Ireland!

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4 years

1/ Today’s my 5th anniversary at @Stripe . Five years ago, I moved across the country to a city that I had never been to before—to do a job that I had no idea how to do. I’m grateful for the people who took bets on me, and still do today.

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2 years

Packing for a move and I’m realizing now that I should probably refresh my wardrobe too…

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2 years

Stripe now supports NFT sales—and we're doing a drop of our very own today! 🄲🅄🄱🄴 🅃🄷🄸🄽🄶🄸🄴🅂 An open edition NFT drop presented by @stripe and @niftygateway . All proceeds benefit healthcare nonprofit @watsi . 6:30–8:30 PM ET: .

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2 years

It’s alive!

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3 months

Introducing Stripe Barter!

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3 years

. @Twitter + @Stripe = Super. Very glad we're working together to enable more creators earn a living!

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3 years

1/ Crypto holds the potential of faster and less expensive payments, particularly in underserved markets. In 2018, we said that @Stripe would "look for opportunities to help our customers by adding support for crypto in the future."

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3 years

It was there the whole time. @ConstitutionDAO

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3 years

Wanted to name this "Stripe NO TAXATION WITHOUT CALCULATION" but the team was a pretty hard no.

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Introducing Stripe Tax—automate taxes on your Stripe transactions.

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3 years

Just joined the class-action lawsuit against @RobinhoodApp . @DoNotPayLaw lets you do it in literally 2 min.

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4 years

A new lewk for @stripe rolling out now. 💅👀

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11 months

so what do u think

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4 years

I hope this mask works...

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3 years

1/ The creator economy isn't letting up. We measured its growth on @Stripe and found that creators will soon earn $10B+ in aggregate: . Perhaps the most inspiring thing we found was that the # of creators earning a living wage (>$69K) has increased 41% YoY.

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Indexing the creator economy

We indexed the creator economy by measuring the growth of creator platforms on Stripe. Creators are coming online at a record clip—from all around the world. More and more are earning a living wage...

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7 months

One of my favorite parts about Stripe is how somebody can throw a crazy idea in Slack and then 130 of your favorite coworkers will chip in and build something like this in 2 weeks. And many more dedicated to keeping Stripe smooth for the millions of businesses who are relying on

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Patrick Collison

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Stripe, live: .

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edwin

2 years

An iPod, a phone, an internet communicator, and a @Stripe Terminal reader. These are not four separate devices. This is one device.

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Patrick Collison

2 years

Stripe is partnering with Apple to enable Tap to Pay on iPhone: . (You can sign up to be notified when it's available over at .)

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1 year

reading stripe annual letter

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2 years

When you’re in Ireland and you call an Uber and it’s both of your bosses??

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1 year

looks like it'll be a banger

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edwin

8 months

🚩 uh oh @levelsio

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Arvid Kahl

8 months

When @levelsio looks at fresh-to-market software products and sees "beautiful design" — fancy gradients, animated borders, he gets suspicious. Why? You'll find out this week on The Bootstrapped Founder:

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2 years

On the NYC subway somebody asked me if I was the “Edwin from edwin @stripe .com”. 💀💀💀

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2 months

📍Moscone We’re getting ready to announce our largest set of updates to @Stripe on Weds. And on Thurs, @collision will show my personal favorite upcoming product in the Future of payments keynote. See you at Sessions!

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4 years

@eladgil @stripe challenge accepted

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6 years

Visiting @StripeJapan this week. Staying at a "millennial capsule hotel" ($70 USD/night!). There’s a projector inside the capsule, and a screen doubles as a door. The bed tilts up for movie watching! I'm becoming a permanent renter of capsule F20.

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1 year

Stripe 🤝 Google Millions of Android phones have just turned into points of sale.

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Tap to Pay is now available on Android! 🤳💳 Businesses in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore, and New Zealand can request access: .

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3 years

@AntiFashGordon @GiveSendGo @stripe @WePay Edwin from Stripe here. I can't share specifics about individual Stripe users, but it's our policy to prohibit groups that incite violence from using Stripe (). Proud Boys violates this policy. We will continue to disable violators as we find them.

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Prohibited and Restricted Businesses | Stripe

This page provides information about the types of businesses, products, and industries that can’t use Stripe’s services.

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2 years

YPCADHIMBY (Yes, Please Crane A @Dwell House Into My Backyard.) Powered by @Stripe !

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3 years

I don’t remember a more exciting time at Stripe. The next few weeks will be a whirlwind! The team has been working on some of these ships for years, almost entirely based off user feedback. I’d recommend following @stripe and signing up for Sessions: . 🔜🐳

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3 years

It’s reallllllll

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edwin

5 years

My apartment has gotten significantly cleaner since I got a Roomba, but not for the reason you might think: Every time the Roomba is scheduled to start, *I clean up before it* so it can navigate without obstruction. This is how the robot apocalypse begins, and I’m sorry.

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1 year

This was simultaneously one of the biggest and easiest projects I’ve ever worked on at @Stripe . The whole thing came together in a matter of weeks—GPT-powered Docs, their integration with us, and our integration with them. A testament to the quality of both teams (and APIs).

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OpenAI + Stripe: .

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7 years

TIL Tesla Superchargers can also charge iPhones.

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edwin

1 year

love watching white people fight each other in the NYT cooking comments. found under recipe for korean beef:

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1 year

Found the emoji IRL. ⛩️

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1 year

watching tenet the way christopher nolan intended

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1 year

Introducing Stripe Reader S700—a customizable smart reader for countertop and handheld use. Build a point-of-sale app with the Terminal API and SDK, then use the S700 for tableside ordering, loyalty programs, forms, tipping, and more. Coming soon: .

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3 years

Classic HN in several ways. h/t @garrytan

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edwin

7 months

BFCM 2023 on @Stripe : >$18.6B >99.999% uptime >5.4M new subscriptions >300M transactions >27K requests/second peak >250K Climate contributions >530K minutes saved with Link >30K businesses hit all-time daily sales records

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Businesses process more than $18.6 billion on Stripe over Black Friday and Cyber Monday

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3 years

. @Stripe SaaS September ships: 🛒 Abandoned cart recovery ⏱ 24 hour invoicing ⤴️ Upsell to yearly subscriptions 🧮 Revenue Recognition 🔢 Stripe Tax in more countries

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Stripe

3 years

We’ve added the ability to recover abandoned carts. Get notified when a customer leaves your Checkout page before completing a purchase, then send them an email reminder—and you can even include a discount! 🛒📨

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3 years

. @Stripe is working on greatly improving how creators get paid. We'd love to spend some time with creators and see how we can help! DMs open:

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5 years

TL;DR: In the past three weeks- 💸 Capital 💳 Corporate Card 🌍 8 new countries 🏎 Instant Payouts in the US 🔌 @Airbnb , @Wayfair , and @github are now powered by Stripe And now there’s going to be more where those came from.

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edwin

3 years

To recap this week in @Stripe : 🔗 Payment Links 🌲 $8M for carbon removal 📡 Radar fraud analytics 🌏 GrabPay Hold on to your butts because there’s *a lot* more where that came from in the coming weeks. (And for the recap of recaps, sign up for on 6/16.)

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4 years

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2 months

A few of you have asked, so here it is: @collision and @patrickc have a cookie miscommunication ahead of Sessions. And yes, that is the @Stripe visionOS SDK! .·✩·.¸.·¯⍣✩ spatial payments ✩⍣¯·.¸.·✩·.¸

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3 years

Just recommended the RACI matrix during a meeting and I hate what I've become.

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edwin

4 years

This huge birthday cake just arrived from my @ne0liberal arch-nemesis @webdevMason . Keep your friends close but your enemies lethargic from eating too much cake. 🎂

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2 months

#stripesessions

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7 months

i love my job

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edwin

1 year

Finally reading Scaling People by @chughesjohnson . When I joined @stripe nearly 8 years ago, I rolled up to her. She helped me become a manager, start and grow teams, and tackle some tricky people management issues. Everything I’ve learned from her is in here—and then some.

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2 years

1/ In the past 10 days, there have been some headlines about Spotify, Ford, and Shopify signing up for @Stripe Issuing, Treasury, Connect, and Billing. The thing is, these products aren't just built for big companies—you can sign up to use these very same products too.

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edwin

3 years

Spaces, Super Follows, and more ways for creators to get paid with Stripe. 😸🥳

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2 years

thx @phlntn now I can make sure everything I do fits within the @stripe design guidelines

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6 years

I had to go to Costco for a very specific reason today. I’ve forgotten what that reason was, but at least I’m now the proud owner of this orange tree, a water filter, a book about the history of SF Chinatown, and a 4 lb bag of fish sticks. 👌

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4 years

I visited @Paystack in Lagos last year. Scheduling was messy so I only had a one way flight at first. We had a running joke that Paystack reminded me so much of @Stripe that I’d never leave—particularly the team’s obsession over users. Now we’re closer than ever. Better together.

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4 years

Stripe + Paystack: .

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edwin

2 years

. @Stripe will literally build your pricing and checkout pages for you now—in one go—so there are no excuses left for you start your SaaS business.

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Stripe - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

Accept payments, send payouts, automate financial processes, and ultimately grow revenue.

www.producthunt.com

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edwin

1 year

This is SF’s version of Marc by Marc Jacobs.

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edwin

2 years

⚠️ Time to BeReal ⚠️ Use @Stripe Identity in your app to make sure your customers are real.

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2 years

The Stripe Identity mobile SDK is now available! Verify your customers within your iOS or Android app. 📱✅

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2 years

I am living proof the studies are incorrect.

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2 years

Owning cryptocurrency may make you more desirable on the dating scene, study finds

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4 years

By the numbers: 👥 400 new Stripes in 2020 ➕ 401 if you count our incoming CFO 🌐 15 new countries in the past year 💸 $10b in aggregate revenue generated by businesses launched since March lockdown

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Dhivya Suryadevara to join Stripe as Chief Financial Officer

Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.

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7 months

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3 years

. @Stripe just unlocked nine billion UnionPay cardholders for businesses. 🔓💳

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Stripe

3 years

We’re adding support for @UnionPay_Intl card payments for businesses in over 30 countries. Along with WeChat Pay and Alipay, Stripe businesses can now sell to billions of Chinese customers around the world. 🌏

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3 years

Why are people unfollowing me

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5 years

Four years ago I joined @Stripe . What’s next? A lot more of the same. Just *a lot* more.

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edwin

2 months

we are cooking 🍝 these might be the biggest updates to Stripe we'll be announcing see you at Moscone

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Join us on 4/24: .

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edwin

5 years

. @Stripe Terminal in the wild serving up boba! 🍵💸

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2 years

reports of SF’s death are greatly exaggerated

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3 years

@stripe 2/ That time has come! @Stripe is starting a crypto team today, and I couldn't be more excited that @gponcin is leading it. We're hiring for Web3 engineers and designers—I hope you'll join us: .

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Guillaume Poncin

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We’re starting a new crypto team at @Stripe . I’m hiring engineers and designers to build the future of Web3 payments: .

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1 year

Took the scenic route across the Kurushima Strait.

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2 years

I've done it! I've found the worst UI!

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3 years

This is a great program from the city of SF and the @Stripe Workplace team. First question from the kids: “How does Stripe Connect work?”

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Griff

3 years

Proud of this: @stripe donated its San Francisco office to support 20,000+ SF public school students who needed space to learn as a part of @sfgov and @WeAreTogetherSF 's Summer Together program. (1/3)

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3 years

🧾 @Stripe Invoicing is now a platform! It lets you do everything from sending *no-code* invoices with a WYSIWYG editor to automating how you collect and reconcile payments with the API.

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5 months

How we built the Stripe Black Friday–Cyber Monday site, using @vercel : .

Architecting a live look at reliability: Stripe's viral Black Friday site – Vercel

Vercel x Stripe social image

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edwin

4 years

I find reassurance when I see humanity using technology to support one another through these trying times. I've been seeing some creative ways people are using @Stripe . If you’re working on a similar project and need help, please DM. Some examples:

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edwin

7 years

Entrepreneurship in 2017: Get inspired by @IndieHackers . Start your business with @atlas . Accept payments with @stripe . Launch on @ProductHunt .

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Zaheer Baloch 🇵🇸

7 years

@ProductHunt @IndieHackers @csallen I love you @stripe and thanks for the Atlas program which made it so easy to launch from Bahrain 🇧🇭. @patio11 @patrickc

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IMO this is not just about fitting a checkout form into your site to look better it matters because Stripe ultimately hosts the checkout so it's constantly tweaked to improve conversion (like adding new payment methods) how @OpenAI , @anotioneer , @marc_louvion , and @GoRails can

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You can now embed Stripe Checkout into your site. Try the demo: .

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6 years

🚀 Start your business with @Atlas 💸 Run it with @Stripe ⛵️ Ship with @ProductHunt 🤑 Get a bunch of credits to help you along the way

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2 years

We're looking for somebody to help run @stripe socials:

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Hiring for Social Communications at Stripe

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4 years

Motion to keep Valencia St permanently this.

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edwin

7 years

We’re giving the @ProductHunt community instant access to @Stripe @Atlas . Now go build something!

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1 month

Jensen Huang and Patrick Collison fireside chat: .

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