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Re:2016. The year we welcome squirrels – Unicorn Bubble by sly_foxx on Sunday January 17, 2016 @10:18AM (#10919664)
All the YCombinator companies are going to deflate.

AirBnB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10913151

Stripe - http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/17/paypals-braintree-is-now-l.... Braintree was bought only 2 years ago for $800 million. 6x less than Stripe's valuation.

Dropbox - http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/22/9372563/dropbox-really-is-.... They are bragging about the number of users, but I bet many of these 'users' are fake accounts made to get free space from referrals and never used again. Plus, there is so much direct and indirect competition. Their privacy policy is also very bad.

Zenefits - http://fortune.com/2015/11/11/snapchat-isnt-the-only-startup...

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Re:2016. The year we welcome squirrels – Unicorn Bubble by nailer on Sunday January 17, 2016 @02:21PM (#10920576)
> Braintree was bought only 2 years ago for $800 million. 6x less than Stripe's valuation.

Ask around: Braintree's product isn't as good as Stripe's.

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Re:2016. The year we welcome squirrels – Unicorn Bubble by timrpeterson on Sunday January 17, 2016 @12:05PM (#10920046)
Stripe is solid but others I have questions about.
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