“Increase the GDP of the internet. Zero-sum games are bad — we want to enable new businesses, new customers, and new economic activity that isn't already occurring.”
Why Patrick is the canonical The Scaler
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe, scaled from two brothers' side project into critical payments infrastructure for much of the internet economy. His mission framing ('increase the GDP of the internet') defines ambition-at-scale.
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