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cercatrova on May 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stripe Financial Connections

I wonder how this compares to Column, since the founder of Column also cofounded Plaid. I see both founders' comments in this thread it looks like but the Column founder doesn't seem too happy about it [0].

There also seems to be some vindication by the Bolt founder, based on his Twitter thread about how Stripe handles corporate development [1][2], it really reminds me of Paul Graham's essay not to talk to them, lest the same thing happen to you [3].

[0] https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1521915016668090368

[1] https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1485784823641755648

[2] https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1521906115914526721

[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html

healthbjk on May 4, 2022 [–]

Column is a bank. They've bought a bank charter and are aiming to cut out Banking as a Service middlemen

philip1209 on May 4, 2022 | [–]

Yeah - my impression is that Column is depth-first for the US banking system, whereas Stripe is breadth-first for multiple markets

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