Scaling Stripe with Patrick Collison — Class 11 Notes of Stanford University’s CS183C | by Chris McCann | Notes Essays —CS183C: Technology-enabled Blitzscaling — Stanford University, Fall 2015 | Medium

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 11 of Stanford University’s CS183C — Technology-enabled Blitzscaling — taught by Reid Hoffman , John Lilly , Chris Yeh , and Allen Blue. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Reid, John, Chris Yeh, and Allen’s entirely. This class was an interview by John Lilly, of Patrick Collison — the founder and CEO of Stripe — on lessons learned from scaling Stripe. Video of the class, notes are below: John Lilly: What is the founding story of Stripe? Patrick Collison: I am skeptical about the “founding mythology” but I can share the story of how we started Stripe. I started Stripe with my brother John Collison while we were in school together. We first started off building iPhone apps together and using the money we made from them to pay our tuition. We got into the habit of working on side projects together early and realized it was easy to make money on iPhone apps (this was in the early days of the app store) and one

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 11 of Stanford University’s CS183C — Technology-enabled Blitzscaling — taught by Reid Hoffman , John Lilly , Chris Yeh , and Allen Blue. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Reid, John, Chris Yeh, and Allen’s entirely. This class was an interview by John Lilly, of Patrick Collison — the founder and CEO of Stripe — on lessons learned from scaling Stripe. Video of the class, notes are below: John Lilly: What is the founding story of Stripe? Patrick Collison: I am skeptical about the “founding mythology” but I can share th