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Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by cmckn on Thursday May 26, 2022 @09:57PM (#31525356)
It’s kind of like a payday loan type of micro-lending that integrates with merchants similarly to PayPal. I’ve never understood the appeal, it feels super predatory. But most creditors do, I guess. I first heard of it a few years ago when they did a huge ad campaign with a lot of the popular queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race.
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Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by pbreit on Thursday May 26, 2022 @10:10PM (#31525420)
It’s frequently way less predatory: merchants pays the finance charges and payoff time is much shorter.
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Re:The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn by bogomipz on Friday May 27, 2022 @12:05AM (#31525923)
I don't know, perhaps they're not predatory in usuary rate sense but I feel like using celebrities like A$AP Rocky and Keke Palmer to appeal to Gen Z to load up on consumer debt feels a bit questionable.
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