Patrick Collison quote, Feb 27, 2025

Co-founder and CEO, Stripe · Feb 27, 2025 1 year ago · Letter, Stripe 2024 annual letter (co-written with John Collison), as quoted in Stripe newsroom

We’re continually retraining dozens of machine learning models that optimize every part of the transaction flow over an economy-scale dataset. The resulting optimizations are big enough that businesses see them in their topline revenue figures. Businesses simply start making more money when they switch to Stripe...

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Said by: Patrick Collison, Co-founder and CEO, Stripe
Where: Stripe 2024 annual letter (co-written with John Collison), as quoted in Stripe newsroom
Topics: Data, Economics
Company: Stripe
Source: stripe.com/newsroom/news/stripe-2024-update

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