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Stripe Is Now a $20B Company

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563 points jonknee | 1 comments | 26 Sep 18 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | 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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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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totoglazer ◴[27 Sep 18 00:53 UTC] No.18081438[source]▶
Although only spacex is clearly Musk founded.
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1. meowface ◴[27 Sep 18 03:50 UTC] No.18082020[source]▶
PayPal wasn't founded by him, but X.com was.