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Chad Whitacre: | |||
"Gratipay is a payments startup with a mission to cultivate an economy of gratitude, generosity, and love. We are pursuing our mission with a product that offers weekly recurring crowdfunding for open organizations. Most of our customers are FLOSS projects, who use us as one of their donation options. A couple key customers are co-working spaces. We've been around for about four years, and we've processed over $1,000,000 on behalf of about 1,500 customers. | |||
One of the most unique aspects of Gratipay is that we don't generate profit simply by "skimming 5 percent off the top." Instead, we're funded on our own platform just like the rest of our customers. Moreover, from the start, we have tried to operate as openly as we responsibly can. The payments industry is a heavily regulated one, not known for its affinity with open culture. Despite that, we have innovated in areas such as product development, partnerships, public relations, and security — and, of course, hiring and compensation." | |||
(https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/5/employees-let-them-hire-themselves) | |||
Revision as of 07:36, 28 July 2016
Description
Chad Whitacre:
"Gratipay is a payments startup with a mission to cultivate an economy of gratitude, generosity, and love. We are pursuing our mission with a product that offers weekly recurring crowdfunding for open organizations. Most of our customers are FLOSS projects, who use us as one of their donation options. A couple key customers are co-working spaces. We've been around for about four years, and we've processed over $1,000,000 on behalf of about 1,500 customers.
One of the most unique aspects of Gratipay is that we don't generate profit simply by "skimming 5 percent off the top." Instead, we're funded on our own platform just like the rest of our customers. Moreover, from the start, we have tried to operate as openly as we responsibly can. The payments industry is a heavily regulated one, not known for its affinity with open culture. Despite that, we have innovated in areas such as product development, partnerships, public relations, and security — and, of course, hiring and compensation." (https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/5/employees-let-them-hire-themselves)
More Information
- see also Liberapay, a recurrent donations platform.