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Stripe Is Now a $20B Company

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563 points jonknee | 6 comments | 26 Sep 18 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.416s | source | bottom
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40acres ◴[26 Sep 18 19:22 UTC] No.18079361[source]▶
In 2017 e-commerce accounted for 9% of all retail sales. If I recall correctly, Amazon is the biggest e-commerce vendor and they are using Stripe.

There are no sure bets in business, but If I had to bet on a private software company's survival 20-25 years down the road I'd be hard pressed to bet against Stripe. I also think their leadership is very impressive w/ the Collision bros at the helm.

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1. pythonaut_16 ◴[26 Sep 18 19:39 UTC] No.18079503[source]▶
I hadn't heard about Amazon using Stripe before.

Here's an article from 2017 talking about it: https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-quietly-starts-using-st...

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2. ttul ◴[26 Sep 18 20:14 UTC] No.18079828[source]▶
Amazing. I wonder why? Amazon must have insane deals with the credit cards. This must be to access some tech that amazon doesn’t want to replicate for some small slice of its business - maybe on the fraud side.
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3. was_boring ◴[26 Sep 18 20:54 UTC] No.18080192[source]▶
I would imagine that they have an integration with dozens of providers. It makes sense to spread it out so your business cannot be bullied by any single third party dependency and you can pit them against each other to get favorable terms across the board.
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4. debacle ◴[26 Sep 18 22:41 UTC] No.18080882{3}[source]▶
When you are as big as Amazon, there's a lot of money left on the table if you're running payments through a third party.
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5. Aeolun ◴[26 Sep 18 23:09 UTC] No.18081034{4}[source]▶
Not necessarily. You can likely bring your own processor and the deal you negotiated with them.
6. mcpherrinm ◴[27 Sep 18 01:25 UTC] No.18081536[source]▶
I bet Amazon is only using Stripe for a small slice of their payments to cover gaps in their own payments stack. I'm sure it's worth it for them to be able to take payments at a higher rate than not be able to take payments at all. That's just a back-end optimization they can handle later.

I don't know what slice that is, but there's plenty of reasons you might go with a more expensive provider. Maybe they support some piece of technology you don't (like Apple or Google pay in browsers), or can process for a card type you can't (like one of the country-specific debit card schemes like EFTPOS in AU or Interac in CA), or just are set up to process payments in some country that Amazon doesn't have infrastructure set up yet. A quick google shows Amazon launched in India and Japan in 2017, so maybe one of those markets had some quirk they didn't want to bother supporting on their own until payment volumes got up.

It looks like Amazon and Stripe both launched in India in 2017, https://stripe.com/blog/india-private-beta

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