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Re:Payment gateways for startups: a guide for founders by nrb on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:47PM (#19803773)
Trying to fight a titan on margin seems like a fool's errand. If customers are truly price sensitive and it makes a noticeable dent in Stripe's bottom line, what's to stop them from a price war with you just long enough to make you insolvent?

There might be a nice business in there somewhere, but disruption is overstating it quite a lot I think.

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Re:Payment gateways for startups: a guide for founders by tomaskafka on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:32AM (#19805604)
Definitely a nice niche business - they won't do a price war, they would have to lower their margins significantly, and no big company ever did that except whith bankrupcy on a horizon.
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Re:Payment gateways for startups: a guide for founders by acct1771 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:44PM (#19811926)
...............

Have you heard of Standard Oil?

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Re:Payment gateways for startups: a guide for founders by abalone on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:23AM (#19805831)
You could say that about a lot of companies. Stripe is far from a dominant “titan” in the processing industry which is something like $2T in global volume. As in Trillion.
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