hemant taneja: think about how payments used to be.much more complex process before stripe really arrived. today any developer that opens up a website and decides to sell, payments is merely an api call so they be embed payments. cory: so it used to be when someone would start a website, drugstore.com, a great, big company. you would have to build an infrastructure to figure out how am i going to recognize the numbers that are going to come in? how am i going to verify those numbers? how am i going to suck the payment out of that account? how can i tell the consumer that the payment has been accepted? hamant: that is right. and wait for weeks of approval to get in business. today you create your website and within minutes you are able to accept payments. stripe does all of that for you. all that you talked about, it makes it a core utility. cory: the interweb, which is a series of tubes, is at least 15 years old where you have had e-commerce websites. let's call it 20. amazon is about 20 years old now. is it really the entire time ther

. >> that was general catalyst managing director hemant taneja. the best of "bloomberg west" will be right back. we'll be talking about space and a mysterious explosion of the secret satellite. we'll talk about that when we come back. ♪ >> i am cory johnson. this is the best of "bloomberg west." space is full of mysteries including this one. an aging defense satellite mysteriously exploded in orbit last month. what happened? power failure? space junk? investigators aren't telling us. i spoke about it with jennifer and author of "blank spots on the map" and videographer -- . >> the national reconnaissance office is like the secret version of nasa. so the u.s. actually has two space programs. there's the public one nasa, the space shuttle apollo all that kind of stuff. another space agency that builds secret satellites. they build classified reconnaissance satellites for themselves and serve the dia cia, national geospatial intelligence and the nsa. >> so the satellite that blew up a few weeks ago, space debris heading towards the earth. nerds with