Stripe's First Employee on Building Modern Banking Infrastructure
Stripe's First Employee on Building Modern Banking Infrastructure  
Podcast: Wharton FinTech Podcast
Published On: Wed Jan 14 2026
Description: 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.