Stripe's First Employee on Building Modern Banking Infrastructure

Stripe's First Employee on Building Modern Banking Infrastructure

January 14, 2026 · 31 min

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Darragh Buckley discusses building modern banking infrastructure and lessons from Stripe's early days.

In this episode, Jackson Ellis speaks with Stripe’s first employee and the founder of Increase, Darragh Buckley, about building reliable, scalable banking infrastructure. We discuss lessons from Stripe’s earliest days, how Increase is modernizing access to payment rails, and why trust, uptime, and simplicity matter more than ever in today’s financial system.

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