Isaac was an artificial intelligence system I developed when I was a teenager, but Stripe is in Ireland for two reasons.
The first reason is that John and I grew up and went to school there. We feel a lot of affinity for Ireland, and we wanted to build a business with one of its two dual headquarters in the country.
The second reason is that most of our customers are based outside of the U.S. A lot of them are in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, etc., and we need to have people there in order to support those businesses.
When you look at it and take stock of the European Union, where most of those customers are, Ireland is now the only English-speaking country in the EU. Given the fact that Stripe is an English-speaking company, it's the most logical option in Europe.