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I'm sorry. It's really frustrating for us too. To the extent it helps, Canada is very much just a first step for us. We're actively working on a number of countries—including New Zealand specifically.

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There are 43 countries[1] with more English speakers than New Zealand. What led you to work on NZ first, rather than say, India or Philippines?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...

EDIT: Many of these countries aren't as "online" as the ones with Her Majesty on their money. But, I should add India scores better on the "number of Internet users" scale than the UK, NZ or Canada.

India should theoretically be the next stop for any startup wishing to expand into other English-speaking markets.

Other factors like the country's legal system are also important, especially for a business that is going to be tightly regulated in most places.

Is Asia being considered at this point? I would expect the English market to be top priority but I'm sure there are at least a few Japanese and Chinese developers who would love to start using Stripe...

Just wondering (*hoping) the UK is in that small list of countries too?

Yeah, Patrick has mentioned that they're working on the UK before. Makes sense, it's the next-biggest English-speaking market after Canada.

As a stereotypically humble Canadian, I feel compelled to point out that UK is an even bigger and more English-speaking market than Canada.

Ah you're totally right. The UK has almost twice the number of Internet users.

I would hazard a guess that the English Speaking Internet User population of India is likely higher than the UK as well.

And Nigeria has the largest population of English-speaking nobility.

It took me three reads to get that. Well done good sir.

I don't get that (Nigeria has the largest population of English-speaking nobility.)

Someone care to explain?

Hello Winter_Blue Sir. I am Prince Whatusername, a member of the Nigerian Royal Family and I am sending you an email to tell you the good news. I have recently come into a large sum of money (10,000,000 US Dollars) and I would like to share some with you..........

With apologies to Her Majesty, Canada has more progressive banking regulation.

Canada is a decent pilot market for the UK, since the Queen is on our money and we misspell words the same way as the UK...

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