Lots of software talks about money, keeps records about money, does calculations about money, but can't *touch* money.
One of the big promises of software is composability. You can build rich, powerful experiences out of basic building blocks.
APIs add new things to the toolbox. For example: Treasury, which lets an app/platform store, move, and track a business’
Lots of software talks about money, keeps records about money, does calculations about money, but can't *touch* money.
So you generally push work to the operator.
You need to be able to read bank transactions to reconcile. You probably can't. The owner can. So you ask the owner to do mind-numbing work a computer does better.
There is some software to write but it is not rocket science.
But let me speculate a bit:
They can automate its operations.
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We made it *better* for your users than many business bank accounts.
"When do I get my money?"
Can you imagine needing to email Google to ask when that email that you know was sent will arrive?
Why is money *so slow* and *so opaque*?
In the U.S., you’ll often be blocked on the ACH network. Fast compared to stagecoach; slow compared to email.
Stripe has an arrangement with the banks that ultimately hold the business users’ funds.
(We are working on making that even faster by default. It’s not called HTTP 200 Check Back In An Hour.)
Putting together fintech products is historically a pain in the keister.
Then your engineering team receives the spec, and the *real* fun begins.
No negotiation required. No bespoke legal work. More of the necessary levels of complexity in touching money businesses depend on; less of the overhead.
You can build all of that on Stripe APIs now.
AAAAAAAARGH.
It is managed at most banks as an offshoot of personal banking, because the userbase is basically the same people who show up at the branch.
But the needs are quite different.
(Narrator: This is not, in fact, an adequate spec for a checking account.)
So do graveyards. And hotels. And landlords. And spas. And tutors. And yoga teachers. And...
Not enough dentists pay not enough dollars for banks to put software teams against dental practice UX.
We can then take that package to leading banks. That reach is *very interesting* to them.
A pizzeria can't walk into Goldman Sachs and walk out with a bank account.
A software company serving pizzerias could if they had, uh, a lot of dough.
And so our partner banks have made great products available, at pricing and terms that small businesses just don't usually get in direct banking relationships.
I know exactly how many times I paid the $14 account maintenance fee for my software businesses, ten years later. That’s how much I hated them.
One way to think of it is that banks have huge expenses to attract SMB deposits, including marketing campaigns and branch networks, and those drive the pricing of SMB banking.
Nationwide advertising, branches, and sales reps aren’t as cheap as cron jobs.
I'm very excited to see what software people do with the Stripe Treasury.
No. This was my number two. You're welcome to your guess at the number one. (Though, who knows, I heard of a new project last week and might steal the zeroth spot for it.)
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Part of the needle threading is making sure that one is still developing some things which are uniquely exciting to developers and smaller shops.
— Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) September 23, 2020
Which: I can\u2019t spoil it, but one thing in the pipeline is maybe my favorite Stripe product since Stripe Atlas if we do it right.
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I hate when I learn something new (to me) & stunning about the Jeff Epstein network (h/t MoodyKnowsNada.)
Where to begin?
So our new Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's stepfather, Samuel Pisar, was "longtime lawyer and confidant of...Robert Maxwell," Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad.
"Pisar was one of the last people to speak to Maxwell, by phone, probably an hour before the chairman of Mirror Group Newspapers fell off his luxury yacht the Lady Ghislaine on 5 November, 1991." https://t.co/DAEgchNyTP
OK, so that's just a coincidence. Moving on, Anthony Blinken "attended the prestigious Dalton School in New York City"...wait, what? https://t.co/DnE6AvHmJg
Dalton School...Dalton School...rings a
Oh that's right.
The dad of the U.S. Attorney General under both George W. Bush & Donald Trump, William Barr, was headmaster of the Dalton School.
Donald Barr was also quite a
I'm not going to even mention that Blinken's stepdad Sam Pisar's name was in Epstein's "black book."
Lots of names in that book. I mean, for example, Cuomo, Trump, Clinton, Prince Andrew, Bill Cosby, Woody Allen - all in that book, and their reputations are spotless.
Where to begin?
So our new Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's stepfather, Samuel Pisar, was "longtime lawyer and confidant of...Robert Maxwell," Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad.
"Pisar was one of the last people to speak to Maxwell, by phone, probably an hour before the chairman of Mirror Group Newspapers fell off his luxury yacht the Lady Ghislaine on 5 November, 1991." https://t.co/DAEgchNyTP
OK, so that's just a coincidence. Moving on, Anthony Blinken "attended the prestigious Dalton School in New York City"...wait, what? https://t.co/DnE6AvHmJg
Dalton School...Dalton School...rings a
Oh that's right.
The dad of the U.S. Attorney General under both George W. Bush & Donald Trump, William Barr, was headmaster of the Dalton School.
Donald Barr was also quite a
Donald Barr had a way with words. pic.twitter.com/JdRBwXPhJn
— Rudy Havenstein, listening to Nas all day. (@RudyHavenstein) September 17, 2020
I'm not going to even mention that Blinken's stepdad Sam Pisar's name was in Epstein's "black book."
Lots of names in that book. I mean, for example, Cuomo, Trump, Clinton, Prince Andrew, Bill Cosby, Woody Allen - all in that book, and their reputations are spotless.
The first area to focus on is diversity. This has become a dogma in the tech world, and despite the fact that tech is one of the most meritocratic industries in the world, there are constant efforts to promote diversity at the expense of fairness, merit and competency. Examples:
USC's Interactive Media & Games Division cancels all-star panel that included top-tier game developers who were invited to share their experiences with students. Why? Because there were no women on the
ElectronConf is a conf which chooses presenters based on blind auditions; the identity, gender, and race of the speaker is not known to the selection team. The results of that merit-based approach was an all-male panel. So they cancelled the conference.
Apple's head of diversity (a black woman) got in trouble for promoting a vision of diversity that is at odds with contemporary progressive dogma. (She left the company shortly after this
Also in the name of diversity, there is unabashed discrimination against men (especially white men) in tech, in both hiring policies and in other arenas. One such example is this, a developer workshop that specifically excluded men: https://t.co/N0SkH4hR35
USC's Interactive Media & Games Division cancels all-star panel that included top-tier game developers who were invited to share their experiences with students. Why? Because there were no women on the
ElectronConf is a conf which chooses presenters based on blind auditions; the identity, gender, and race of the speaker is not known to the selection team. The results of that merit-based approach was an all-male panel. So they cancelled the conference.
Apple's head of diversity (a black woman) got in trouble for promoting a vision of diversity that is at odds with contemporary progressive dogma. (She left the company shortly after this
Also in the name of diversity, there is unabashed discrimination against men (especially white men) in tech, in both hiring policies and in other arenas. One such example is this, a developer workshop that specifically excluded men: https://t.co/N0SkH4hR35