Claiming Stripe was obvious is ahistorical unless you believe tens of thousands or even millions of entrepreneurs discarded $100B.
You have a small point that anyone who used authorize.net or similar wanted it to be better and that was obvious, but there's nearly infinite things people want to be better. I'd like breakfast, my commute, my car, my doctor, my vet, etc to be better. That you could make a better thing was incredibly non-obvious and that's why no one did.
You have a small point that anyone who used authorize.net or similar wanted it to be better and that was obvious, but there's nearly infinite things people want to be better. I'd like breakfast, my commute, my car, my doctor, my vet, etc to be better. That you could make a better thing was incredibly non-obvious and that's why no one did.