[aquark]

Actually I think Stripe is a surprisingly bad name. I work a lot with Stripe (& love them technically), have over a thousand of (mostly non-technical) customers that are connected via Stripe connect.

The name gets mangled by customers, A LOT. The most common confusion is (repeatedly) calling them swipe though strip has come up more than once. People are thinking more in terms of swiping cards than the stripe on them and so that verb sticks in their mind.

[finspin]

Here's a story by one of the founders on how Stripe came up with the name https://www.quora.com/How-did-Stripe-come-up-with-its-name