“you wanted to sell Stripe Connect versus Vanilla Payments.”
Stripe Connect
By Stripe
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“our product Stripe Connect which was made for marketplaces like Uber and Airbnb”
“the product I was working on strike connect that was like like it's like a major product for stripe”
“Stripe Connect is our product for platforms and marketplaces”
“that actually resulted in us launching this sort of evolution of this product that we had at the time called Stripe Connect”
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