How an app built for Stripe lost its users – with Ryan Scherf
One of the things I’m so proud of about Mixergy is that we don’t just feature people who’ve built unicorns, billion-dollar businesses, or even built incredibly successful companies. That’s what we aim for.
But we also feature entrepreneurs who built companies who weren’t successful.
That’s what we have for you today, an entrepreneur named Ryan Scherf. He is the founder of Payment for Stripe, which enabled Stripe users to accept credit card payments directly from Stripe and to see analytics on their Stripe account.
It was a great product but then Stripe decided that they were going to create their own app.
We’re going to find out what happened since then. It’s not exactly what you’d think…
Ryan Scherf is the founder of Payment for Stripe, which enabled Stripe users to accept credit card payments directly from Stripe.
Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart. Boom.
One of the things that I’m so proud of and I have been proud of about Mixergy from the beginning is that I don’t just feature people who’ve built unicorns, billion-dollar businesses, or even built incredibly successful companies. That’s what we aim for. But I also feature entrepreneurs who built companies who weren’t successful.
And I do that because I believe that as long as you get out there onto the field, you are accomplishing something major. We want to get as many people out there as possible. And at the same time, I believe that we’d learn a lot from analyzing what didn’t work, often more so than we learn from analyzing what does work.
And I know that this is part of the culture of building successful companies because when I get together for dinner with successful...
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