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I remember /dev/payments back in Summer of 2009 when were were in YC with the Collisons I am curious if any of the APIs are actually 11 years old ;)

(that said, I am curious what happened in S09, we wanted /dev/payments badly, but nothing really happened as far as we could tell, and Stripe went through a future YC batch again)

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AFAIK Stripe (/dev/payments back then ) never demo'd on the demo day of either S09 or S10. YC had/has a deal with Sequoia that Sequoia gets first dibs on the companies in each batch before demo day. Stripe presented to a bunch of VCs but got picked up before the demo day.

Basically they had funding before the demo day.

Also they stayed in "beta" all the way until Sept/Oct 2011 when they formally launched on Techcrunch. That gave them enough time to hone the basic API, work out a TPPP (Third party payment processor ) deal with Wells Fargo and actually try it out before launching.

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