Senior Google Executive Claire Hughes Johnson has been hired by San Francisco based payments company Stripe to lead its business operations.
Johnson will be moving from tech giant Google to a much smaller – but fast-growing – startup that enables businesses to easily take payments over the internet. Stripe offers an API that allows developers to integrate the payments service on their website or apps without needing a merchant account.
Johnson joined Google in 2004, and has held several management positions over the last ten years. Most recently, she acted as Vice President of the Google X special projects division for its self-driving car initiative.
“When I joined Google, it was a 1,500-person company, which I thought was huge, since I don’t think of myself as a corporate person,” said Johnson. “It’s exciting to be able to be part of the block and tackle of building a company from a smaller base.”
“This company has a vision that is different and has huge potential,” she added.
Whitepapers
Related reading
2020 hailed “year of contactless” by payments study
By Richard Young The coronavirus crisis has caused a surge in mobile and contactless payments, driving consumers to make fewer but larger ... read more
Redefining remittances: Fintechs during coronavirus
By Daumantas Dvilinskas, CEO and co-founder, TransferGo According to new projections by the World Bank, remittances are set to decline by as ... read more
Crypto’s safe-haven status wavers amidst market crash
Perceptions that cryptocurrency performs autonomously from other markets is being questioned as bitcoin crashed by 50 percent on March 12. Market participants ... read more
COVID-19: our action plan
Dear reader, As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, we continue to hear and read unsettling stories from around the globe. At Payment Eye, ... read more
