Founded: 2010
Founders: Patrick Collison, John Collison
Industry: Payments
Revenue: $14B+
Valuation: $95B
Stripe made internet payments simple for developers. Before Stripe, integrating payment processing was a nightmare of compliance requirements, complex APIs, and unreliable systems. They turned it into seven lines of code.
The Collison brothers understood that developer experience was the key to winning in payments infrastructure. They built beautiful documentation, simple APIs, and handled all the complexity behind the scenes.
// This is all it took to accept payments
const stripe = Stripe('pk_test_...');
const {error} = await stripe.redirectToCheckout({
sessionId: 'session_id'
});Still the gold standard for payment infrastructure. Their success enabled the entire modern internet economy - from SaaS subscriptions to marketplace businesses.