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What’s with all these acquisitions? Stripe realizing it’s going to slowly become PayPal 2.0 because infinite growth doesn’t exist?
I think the aim is to become the agent for commerce.
If you don't like a government regulating a market then you haven't seen a company do it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> controls all of the early incorporation infrastructure You don't need to rely on Stripe to do anything. There are other payment gateways, and you can file things yourself (or hire someone). Do they make things very easy and accessible for a smaller fee than doing it yourself, yes.
In fact Atlas and their push to be a C-Corp is a bad play for us small timers
No idea about the products, or if it is "good news for founders, and bad for consumers" as is unfortunately sometimes the case. But thanks for wording the press release as "company X acquired company Y", and not some weasely lingo line like "Y is joining the X family".
Clerky is great, Stripe is really buying all of the great product companies. I feel like with Clerky and Stripe Atlas they, Stripe now controls all of the early incorporation infrastructure now. This feels deeply problematic.
Lol, no.
Firstbase, Doola, Capbase. Not to mention all the old school cos that will help you incorporate in their state.
Clerky is great, Stripe is really buying all of the great product companies. I feel like with Clerky and Stripe Atlas they, Stripe now controls all of the early incorporation infrastructure now. This feels deeply problematic.
So I wouldn't Stripe controls all of the early incorporation infrastructure – just the flashy stuff (which I'm sure is great too).
(disclaimer: former Stripe employee)
I wish all smaller startup that is being acquired by big fish would start their blog by stating what they do first. So that hopefully we get a little bit of context of what is being sold and what it might add in the future.
Every single time I had to click around and look at what they do and what are their competitors to help understand the company.
That said, I wonder if this reflects how much people are using LLMs for generating legal boilerplate, rather than using lawyer-generated boilerplate (i.e. clerky). As in, this is another version of Stack Overflow losing traffic.