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Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation

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721 points hhs | 2 comments | 16 Apr 20 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 3.387s | source
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JaakkoP ◴[16 Apr 20 14:56 UTC] No.22889999[source]▶
I love the quote from John Collison:

"This is digital migration in a very compressed period of time, for both businesses and customers," Collison adds. "My mom recently asked me if I'd heard of 'this Instacart thing.' Yeah mom, I have."

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pc ◴[16 Apr 20 15:03 UTC] No.22890098[source]▶
:-). True.
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sjunlee ◴[16 Apr 20 15:09 UTC] No.22890160[source]▶
Is Stripe still hiring during COVID-19?
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1. crtlaltdel ◴[16 Apr 20 15:18 UTC] No.22890257[source]▶
quite a few shops are hiring rn. i’ve been told google plans on easing up on hiring over the rest of 2020, but it wasn’t described to me as a freeze. there are a bunch of startups that managed to close funding before this broke open, they’ve been hiring as well if thats your thing
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2. yellow_postit ◴[16 Apr 20 15:42 UTC] No.22890537[source]▶
Google wouldn’t describe it as a freeze. “Pause”, “slow down”, “recalibration” are all great euphemisms because unless you are super hard up on cash you are going to have critical roles to fill or backfill and the PR hit on a “freeze” is and unforced error.