Joined 5 years ago
However, the grip they have over the Internet keeps increasing. Whether they eat into your product or increase your fees it seems inevitable given a lack of competition. The PayPals / Braintrees, Adyens, etc are just not innovating at the same rate.
Even their largest customers likely feel "too integrated" and have minimal leverage as Stripe continues to dominate whatever it chooses. I hope before long there is a solid challenger to keep them in check, but I don't have my hopes up.
However, the grip they have over the Internet keeps increasing. Whether they eat into your product or increase your fees it seems inevitable given a lack of competition. The PayPals / Braintrees, Adyens, etc are just not innovating at the same rate.
Even their largest customers likely feel "too integrated" and have minimal leverage as Stripe continues to dominate whatever it chooses. I hope before long there is a solid challenger to keep them in check, but I don't have my hopes up.