202 Annual Letter to Stripe Users

-Stripe processed $640 billion+ in payments in 2021, up 60% - 1,400 new companies (and 100 nonprofits) joined Stripe each DAY last year- 100 businesses every day passed the milestone of $1 million in lifetime sales on Stripe.- 7000 on staff now

Internally, our first Operating Principle is “Users First”. Some companies are technology-first:  they do some R&D, invent interesting tech, and figure out how to commercialize it. That’s a very  viable and successful approach for many companies. But Stripe is lucky enough to serve  millions of smart, discerning, and demanding bu... See more

One of the first products we launched to help more companies get started was +After years of tireless iteration and improvement by the team, Atlas is now used for around one  in ten new C Corporations in Delaware, a milestone that we’re quite proud of.

We think we can help grow the internet economy in four primary ways-# Increasing the rate of new business creation by lowering the cost an$ complexity of  getting started -# Helping established enterprises adapt their business mo$els to the internet-# Increasing cross-border commerce by simplifying and standardizing the complex  internat... See more