Anne Wojcicki Quotes

The Russian customers don't feel very comfortable with online transactions.

Online transactions, once relegated to leaps of faith, have evolved into our status quo. We no longer ask ourselves whether or not it's wise to buy online. Instead, we ask whether or not it's wise to deal with a particular person, service provider, or business.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

Don't buy anything online that you'd laugh at buying in real life.

I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.

I call up Amazon. It seems to me they do a major thing wrong, right. I mean, they protect me against the loss of a $50 liability I have of something on my credit card, but they do nothing to protect me against somebody who is watching to see what books I'm interested in, what new perversions I've developed.

We're risking the future of the net. People are already losing their trust. Once you get burned once - somebody steals your credit card, or makes a purchase on your account - people tend to stay away from online commerce and from trusting online services.

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

I don't shop online. I'm always scared to put my credit card on the Internet!

Technology has come a long way since PayPal.

When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.

From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.

I was trying to create products to complement the pop-up blocker. All these people were giving me their credit cards. I figured I could sell them something else.

We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

I don't do online banking.

The truth is I don't really like the world of plastic money: the great chip-and-pin double act of modern payment. I prefer cash. I don't like the idea of some distant clerk nodding each time I make a card purchase and quietly adding to my 'consumer profile.' I'm anti all cards.

But I will just make the slight point here - I have never ever bought anything online. I don't know how to.

I live, I shop almost exclusively on the Internet. I've bought cars on the Internet. I watch television, I do everything on it. I even watch my son online.

Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.

Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

I look forward to trying the Internet.

The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.

In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.

QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.