St. Louis is a customer- and partner-rich environment for any financial tech startup.
Even by Silicon Valley standards, PayPal's vision was massively ambitious.
If you look at the banking business over many years, it's always been a huge user of technology. This has been going on my whole life, that people have been adding technology, digitizing services.
Part of Stripe's vision is linking people better on the web.
Blockchain technologies will change transactions in a broad way.
I had been exposed to bitcoin early. I thought the consumer application of it felt, to me, further away. I thought there would be faster adoption of the blockchain in the enterprise space and with banks.
For people who use Google Wallet, the experience works.
The firm is really ahead of the times. It has a stock market ticker that prints its report on thin aspirins.
