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Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

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Re: Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

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Post by warent »

Stripe has made transactions for my SaaS business so painless. I recently learned that I have customers with different currencies and it's not even something I had to consider or account for. Yeah their API is a little bit... bloated for simple needs since they're covering for many different use-cases, but their superb documentation, clean dashboard UX, and relatively low fees really make the value offering huge.

Overall I'm really not surprised at the valuation. Stripe is one of the best products/services out there.

Re: Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

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Post by pmart123 »

thinkingkong wrote: post #7

Before we start piling on about whether or not its really worth 35B just keep in mind how private companies are valued. Someone paid a lot of money for a chunk of stripe so thats what its “worth”. Personally I think stripe is close to worth - as another commenter put it - half of goldman sachs. The recent launch of loans, credit card issuing, etc are all bets or exercises that put stripe in an incredible position to…

What about Stripe versus Adyen or Square?

Re: Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

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Post by babl-yc »

harryh wrote: post #4

Why is Stripe still private?

There's two main incentives to go public: raising money and liquidity.

They don't need to tap public markets to raise money. And investors are likely OK holding off on liquidity if the valuation continues to rise.

Going public typically requires a significant amount of effort across the company, which can reduce focus on other initiatives key to growing the business.

Re: Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

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Post by Despegar »

warent wrote: post #11

Stripe has made transactions for my SaaS business so painless. I recently learned that I have customers with different currencies and it's not even something I had to consider or account for. Yeah their API is a little bit... bloated for simple needs since they're covering for many different use-cases, but their superb documentation, clean dashboard UX, and relatively low fees really make the value offering huge. Ove…

Why is it better than Adyen?

Re: Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

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Post by warent »

Despegar wrote: post #18
warent wrote: post #11

Stripe has made transactions for my SaaS business so painless. I recently learned that I have customers with different currencies and it's not even something I had to consider or account for. Yeah their API is a little bit... bloated for simple needs since they're covering for many different use-cases, but their superb documentation, clean dashboard UX, and relatively low fees really make the value offering huge. Ove…

Why is it better than Adyen?

For starters I've never heard of Adyen until just now. So, perhaps better marketing?

Re: Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

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Post by mathattack »

kchoudhu wrote: post #3

Stripe is cool -- I use it every day -- but is it really worth, oh, half a Goldman Sachs? I dunno man.

A couple thoughts on why this isn’t a fair comparison:

- Goldman is profitable but the employees extract most of it via compensation.

- Goldman has to rewin their business every year. Very little recurring revenue and they are one recession from imploding.

- You can’t really compute valuation on a very small investment. It’s not like the entire float is trading, and the small investment (relative to valuation) can have all kinds of liquidity preferences and special rights.

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