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Y Combinator - The to Do List Destroyer
Stripe was in a cohort with peers we could sell to, but there were three or four payments companies in Y Combinator around the same time that all started to do the same thing. One of the friction that we had was that that same referral network that was so beneficial to us, started to be a hindrance where Stripe was clear in a way more successful, bigger payments company of the batch. There were a bunch of things that just ease the path for any new YC company to start using Stripe from day one.
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