They made it easy for any techie to start accepting payments. And I think it sounds simple when you say it like that, but if you know payments, it's incredibly difficult to do.

if you look at what they're offering, it's it's incredibly complex, but they just put an incredibly simple API over top of it.

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if you look at what they're offering, it's it's incredibly complex, but they just put an incredibly simple API over top of it. And they were really the first company to do that. You have Adi in here in Europe who is a full stack payment provider. Right? That's you know, you could say one of the challenges with Stripe is they're still on other platforms rails, whereas Adi is that full stack, but you can't compete with how simple, easy, and automated Stripe is. So they made it easy for any techie to start accepting payments. And I think it sounds simple when you say it like that, but if you know payments, it's incredibly difficult to do. Well, the birdsong behind you, did that start when we started talking about Stripe? There you go. The birds start singing. It's amazing. It is one of my yeah. I mean, it's if I had to have, like, a love affair, it would be with with Stripe. So they built an incredibly large business

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Captures the essence of Stripe's value proposition with the key insight that simple interfaces hide complex infrastructure. The contrast between 'sounds simple' but 'incredibly difficult' is perfectly quotable and explains why Stripe won.

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