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To me, this is exemplary of the DNA of Stripe today, of its borderless mission to increase the GDP of the Internet, and the statement captures many layers of how we operate, innovate and celebrate:

We operate increasingly decentralized as our economic infrastructure is being built in all parts of the world. What continues to amaze me is how we keep doing it in a coordinated way. Our investments in building out a remote hub for sure contribute to this competitive strength.

This in turn allows us to acquire unique local-regional-global user intimacy which helps drive our innovation. We can pattern match on the shape of our users’ challenges with a growing toolbox of solutions, often employed in geographies different from where these were acquired.

And that’s why we celebrate diversity in the broadest sense of the word, among our users as well as our colleagues, whom I both dearly love. Stripe is a special place, with its biggest challenges still ahead of us. Close to one year in, my excitement is bigger than it ever was.