Collision 2015 - John Collison of Stripe with Alexandra Suich of The Economist

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Claims that online payments remain fragmented and brittle: international acceptance still fails where credit card penetration is low, and checkout UI is basically a mail-order form ill-suited for mobile. The concrete play is to build a robust technical foundation (Stripe as developer-facing payments APIs) then layer better UX and auth (Apple Pay / Touch ID). Examples that work: Instacart rethinks grocery buying, Harrys cuts middlemen and owns a razor factory, Warby Parker uses stores as showrooms.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:04How long does it take for payments to become obvious
3. 3:20What is the consensus at Stripe
4. 4:38The future of payments
5. 8:38The future of ecommerce
6. 11:45Authentication at point of sale
7. 13:03How Stripe started
8. 16:01Silicon Valleys acceptance of failure
9. 17:05Remote working

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