Dan Schulman Quotes

What interests us in Stripe is the idea that there could much more commerce happening on the Internet.

As long as the Internet economy continues to grow, Stripe will continue to grow.

The promise of the Internet is being held back by Visa, Master Card, American Express.

Ten Internets ago, when PayPal was started, it was all these tools that no one had built yet to bring commerce to the Internet. My first startup used PayPal.

Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.

Online transactions, once relegated to leaps of faith, have evolved into our status quo. We no longer ask ourselves whether or not it's wise to buy online. Instead, we ask whether or not it's wise to deal with a particular person, service provider, or business.

A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay.

I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.

For people who use Google Wallet, the experience works.

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

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.

We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

Online payment will continue to play an ever-growing and significant role in the development of e-commerce as well as the stimulation of consumer demand.

Venmo is one of the jewels of Paypal.

The Russian customers don't feel very comfortable with online transactions.

It's easy to talk to people over the Web, but it's not very easy to trigger transactions. That's the thing we set out to fix with Stripe.

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

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.

Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes... you could buy things just by typing in your password... That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps.

Trade on the Internet is becoming very widespread. The problem is our laws have not caught up with electronic commerce.

E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.

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

When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.