[kodah]

Whether a human made it is pretty arbitrary. Someone came up with a strategy and multiple levels of Stripe decision making thought it was doable and a good idea. Executives, more often than not, will put share holders and company interest first.

[danielmarkbruce]

In this case they didn't. In this case they had more control to make the decision they wanted too, since they control it.

[kodah]

That's not how a large company like Stripe works, even if you have majority shares. You still need coalitions.

[danielmarkbruce]

Coalition of 2 in this case