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Stripe Is Now a $20B Company

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563 points jonknee | 4 comments | 26 Sep 18 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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haaen ◴[26 Sep 18 19:17 UTC] No.18079316[source]▶
Stripe is the second most valuable YC company. Total valuation of all companies that YC funded (more than 1,900) now exceeds 100 billon dollars.

Airbnb has a private valuation of 31 billion. Stripe has a private valuation of 20 billion. Dropbox has a public valuation (DBX) of 11 billion.

So the two most valuable companies account for about half the total value of all the YC companies. This is what a power law looks like!

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1. Liron ◴[27 Sep 18 00:16 UTC] No.18081317[source]▶
Crazy that Elon Musk's top 3 founded companies (PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX) are higher valuation than YC's top 3 investment companies (AirBnB, Stripe, Dropbox).

Interestingly PayPal and Stripe are both competing for some of the same integrations. PayPal increased our revenues by 20% when we started using it in addition to Stripe.

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2. totoglazer ◴[27 Sep 18 00:53 UTC] No.18081438[source]▶
Although only spacex is clearly Musk founded.
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3. meowface ◴[27 Sep 18 03:50 UTC] No.18082020[source]▶
PayPal wasn't founded by him, but X.com was.
4. napoleond ◴[27 Sep 18 14:44 UTC] No.18084977[source]▶
That actually makes the observation more interesting in some ways--none of the YC examples were "founded" by YC either.

One could argue that Musk has acted like a very aggressive version of an angel or VC--finds promising young startups in growth industries, provides them with capital (or, in Musk's case, some capital and lots of sweat equity, to the point of getting himself listed as the CEO and over-shadowing the original founders), and helps them to blossom into a precious unicorn.

Either way, it's interesting to think of Musk's personal endeavours in comparison with a group like YC. I don't really know what conclusions I would draw though.