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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

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We applied this principle when we launched Stripe in Japan in 2014. So we actually did a partnership with a local card company in order to build the rails so that local banks could accept currencies other than yin, which really meant we had to delay our launch and take the time to build what our users needed and what the market lacked.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

We applied this principle when we launched Stripe in Japan in 2014. So we actually did a partnership with a local card company in order to build the rails so that local banks could accept currencies other than yen, which really meant we had to delay our launch and take the time to build what our users needed and what the market lacked.

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