Help increase the GDP of the internet

Stripe builds financial tools and economic infrastructure for the internet. We’re helping small startups and the world’s biggest companies build products, create business models, and scale their efforts globally. And we’d like your help.

Our customers are the most ambitious organizations in the world. Previously, they had to create an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden version of financial rails before they could do business online. We are doing the difficult-but-necessary work of building a global payments and treasury network—so entrepreneurs and enterprises can concentrate on creating value, not moving money. 

We operate at significant scale, but we’re still tiny relative to the opportunity. We have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

WHAT MATTERS TO US IS WHAT WE ENABLE FOR OTHERS

We focus on the details of everything we do. All to help businesses around the world focus on what’s most important to them. So Lyft can concentrate on delighting drivers and riders, rather than moving money between them. So Slack can reinvent workplace communication, not invoicing. So Khan Academy can focus on educating the world, not fighting credit card fraud. We take pride in freeing up others to work in the spotlight by solving complex infrastructure problems that would otherwise hold them back.

The challenges we’re up against

Our customers entrust us with the enormous responsibility of helping to run their livelihoods. We work tirelessly to be worthy of that trust. Here’s a partial list of things that keep us up at night.

WE ARE BANDWIDTH-CONSTRAINED

Our business has grown much faster than our company. When we do planning and prioritization, the projects that end up “below the line”—dropped from near-term plans because of lack of people to staff them—would be exciting, high-impact things to work on. But we maintain an extremely high bar for the quality of what we create and how we interact, and we aren’t prepared to sacrifice that for quantity of output.

OUR GROWTH DEPENDS ON OUR USERS’ GROWTH

Merely outrunning our competitors would be insufficient—we have to outrun all our customers. We have to get to the regions they want to expand to before they do. We have to support modes of commerce that don’t yet exist because they are still busy inventing them. We have to remain a step ahead of the millions of organizations that use Stripe every day so we help them scale and succeed.