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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

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Let’s start with the first one, which I think really is to prepare your core product for scale. The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services. Let’s start with our five key steps. Romain Huet : Right.

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Bill Clerico : Yeah.

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How Founders Can Take Control of Their Destiny with Tradeshift (video + transcript)

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We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business? We really wanted to simplify supply chains.