{"id":7591,"date":"2018-10-17T13:48:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7591"},"modified":"2018-10-17T13:48:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:48:28","slug":"the-untold-story-of-stripe-the-secretive-20bn-startup-driving-apple-amazon-and-facebook-wired-uk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/17\/the-untold-story-of-stripe-the-secretive-20bn-startup-driving-apple-amazon-and-facebook-wired-uk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving Apple, Amazon and Facebook &#124; WIRED UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe idea driving 402 was that it\u2019s obvious that support for payments should be a first-class concept on the web and it\u2019s obvious that there should be a lot of direct commerce taking place on the web,\u201d says John \u201cIn fact, what emerged is a single dominant business model which is advertising. That leads to a lot of centralisation, because you get the highest cost per clicks and with the largest platforms. A big part of what we\u2019re trying to do with Stripe is continually make it easy for new business to start, and for new businesses to succeed. Having commerce and direct payment succeed on the internet is a very important component of that. It\u2019s the final piece in the Dream Machine.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/stripe-payments-apple-amazon-facebook\">The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving Apple, Amazon and Facebook | WIRED UK<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe idea driving 402 was that it\u2019s obvious that support for payments should be a first-class concept on the web and it\u2019s obvious that there should be a lot of direct commerce taking place on the web,\u201d says John \u201cIn fact, what emerged is a single dominant business model which is advertising. That leads to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/17\/the-untold-story-of-stripe-the-secretive-20bn-startup-driving-apple-amazon-and-facebook-wired-uk-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving Apple, Amazon and Facebook &#124; WIRED UK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}