[pc]

I knew Kyle in college. He was extremely smart, kind, patient, and friendly. (He was a few years ahead of me; I was a random Irish freshman who had just shown up.) Looking back, he's one of the people who inspired me to get into startups. While we never ended up working together, it wasn't for lack of trying on my side -- everyone said he was phenomenal, and I tried hard to persuade him to join Stripe in the early days.

[sroussey]

In the early days at Weebly, we decided to use Stripe.

pc gave me his mobile number and answered at 3am when I was in a panic during our launch of e-commerce.

Much respect.

[GlassOwAter]

I have a company that makes terpene-infused hard candies (nothing illegal/gray area). When we started in 2016 we were soon kicked off of Stripe, because the candy was classified by them as a drug. I then learned about their strict views and how they also ban other legal products/services from using their service. That was very frustrating.

[jamestimmins]

MIT has no shortage of exceptional people; was there something that stood out about Kyle among even that crowd?

[exogeny]

This is as good of an endorsement as you'll ever see.

Also I am happy to be your next choice after Kyle. I'll join Stripe, Patrick!

[xstthr]

Do you think the Kyles of today would join or excel in the politics at Stripe today?

[fragmede]

ask gdb