Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

Re:Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B by Despegar on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:29PM (#21018474)

Why is it better than Adyen?

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Re:Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B by warent on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:30PM (#21018484)

For starters I've never heard of Adyen until just now. So, perhaps better marketing?

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Re:Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B by joshmn on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:37PM (#21018567)

It's pretty popular in the Europe and is a Dutch company.

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Re:Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B by scient on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:41PM (#21018599)

Its only "popular" because for a long time it was the only choice in Europe pretty much. In several countries it still is.

It also was total garbage developer friendliness wise ~5 years ago.

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Re:Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B by mtgx on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:05PM (#21018834)

Well, Stripe still isn't available in like one quarter of the European countries.

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Re:Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B by odiroot on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:40PM (#21018589)

I had the unfortunate opportunity to integrate with Adyen around 2016-2017 and it was super painful. The API didn't make much sense to me and the documentation was hard to navigate and understand. It all looked very rough and rushed to the market.

Granted it was "a long time ago" but I can still remember the pain.

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Re:Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B by nspady on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:23PM (#21019025)

Had a very similar experience around that same time. However, Adyen provided much nicer built in reporting features than Stripe at the time which made Finance happy.

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