I think that Stripe generally is comprised of the kind of people who believe in technology or are kind of optimistic about its effect and want to have whatever future it's leading to happen.

I got the most surprising reaction was when I had bleached blonde hair with a black stripe at the bottom - all of the ends were black. That one got the most attention - good and bad.

Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way you'd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.

Part of Stripe's vision is linking people better on the web.

I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I don't judge anyone of any stripe by what they read. Reading is always good for you. It's a positive act.

Amazon Web Services for payments is an apt description of Stripe.

There is a higher degree of operational excellence and rigor demanded of Stripe than of most companies.

The separation of audience into tribes preferring to reinforce their own views with media of similar ideological stripe makes true debate impossible.

The decision to join Stripe and run 'Increment' was a pretty easy one for me: It was an opportunity to be impactful, to collect and share best practices from the most effective engineering teams in the world. 'Increment' is a step toward flattening the distance between the Silicon Valley elite and developers everywhere.

I never met a stripe I didn't like.

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

When a country doesn't have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the idea is that by providing better infrastructure, by linking the Internet economically, by making it easier for these online businesses to exist, it'll make the web better.

Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start.

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.

There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.

Stripe was very much the product of our past experiences.