Disrupting Japan Podcast: How U.S. FinTech Stripe Broke into Low-Tech Japan www.disruptingjapan.com

Stripe’s Japan market entry did not go according to plan.

Things worked out worked out well in the end, but they did not go according to plan. Stripe is one of the world’s largest payment processing companies, but they remained flexible and agile enough to take advantage of some of the surprises they faced in Japan.

Today we sit down with Daniel Heffernan, the Japan head of Stripe, and he walks us through what happens when a technically sophisticated and streamlined FinTech company comes face-to-face with the very low-tech and slow-moving processes that make up FinTech in Japan, and how they made it all work.