Stripe's First Employee on Building Modern Banking Infrastructure
From Wharton FinTech Podcast by Wharton Fintech Podcast
January 14, 2026 · 31 min
About this episode
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.
People in this episode
Host: Jackson Ellis
Guest: Darragh Buckley
Topics covered
- banking infrastructure
- payment rails
- financial system
- trust
- scalability
- technology
Keywords
- Stripe
- Increase
- banking infrastructure
- payment rails
- trust
- financial system
- scalability
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Stripe, Increase
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