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For starters I've never heard of Adyen until just now. So, perhaps better marketing?
It's pretty popular in the Europe and is a Dutch company.
It also was total garbage developer friendliness wise ~5 years ago.
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What about Stripe versus Adyen or Square?
Does the existence of other financial firms make Goldman Sachs worth any less? I don't think it does. We're used to winner-take-all when it comes to these unicorns, but I'm not convinced it will stay that way. With many of these service niches, there's a ton of money to be made and enough needs / feature differentiation for competition.
I haven’t used the two products, but is Stripe 50% better than Adyen? Why would I use one versus the other? How easy will it be for Lyft to develop its own payment technology?
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…
Edit: Oh please ignore my blindness, I didn't realize this was just a pure valuation announcement.
I feel this valuation is well-deserved. I rarely feel that way nowadays. This company will be around and still relevant a decade from now. I'd love to see them challenge the dinosaurs in the financial sector.
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…
Yea, I'm pretty cool with this IPO as the company has built into filling quite a good niche while also putting pressure on MasterCard/Visa to clean up their monopoly softened act. I hope they find good success in the long term! Edit: Oh please ignore my blindness, I didn't realize this was just a pure valuation announcement.
Stripe is cool -- I use it every day -- but is it really worth, oh, half a Goldman Sachs? I dunno man.
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…
I used Stripe about 7 years ago. I used it because their APIs were simple and PayPal etc. was complex and bloated.
It seems that this cycle repeats throughout b2b startups. Is there now an opportunity to create yet another simple lightweight API but one that doesn't cover all use-cases?
Why doesn't Stripe want to become a public company?
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Because they are wildly profitable already without outside capital investment. Also: much less paperwork to do.
If they're wildly profitable, why would they need this latest funding round?
Stripe is cool -- I use it every day -- but is it really worth, oh, half a Goldman Sachs? I dunno man.
Stripe is the better product.