ROUND TABLE: WHY IS SOMETHING LIKE THE STRIPES NEEDED?

This is the inaugural posting of our new Round Table Discussion initiative. In order to occasionally take the conversation off the page, and incorporate discussion and collaboration of ideas, we bring together a handful of diverse and interested parties to sit down and casually discuss issues/questions proposed by either The Stripes board or suggested by our readers.

Below is the audio stream for the discourse around our first question, recorded on November 24th, 2013: