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@patrickc on how Stripe got its name:
"We just couldn't come up with a good name... We were literally reduced to picking random words late at night."
"One of the folks at Stripe had the bright idea of, 'Why don't we just assemble a big list of words and email all of the owners of the dot com domains?'"
"And then we also continued our own creative process. We came up with memorable names like PayDemon... We thought it was super clever because we could have this awesome mascot."
"The owner of
stripe.com generously responded to us and had an offer that was at least within our plausible budgetary range."
"But we couldn't decide between PayDemon and Stripe. I swear I'm not making this up... If we could not settle on a name by December 20th, 2010, we would just default to Stripe. And we couldn't think of a more compelling name, and so Stripe it became."
Patrick Collison w/ John Lilly at Stanford University (2015)