Re:Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
by anovikov on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @11:37AM
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Almost as if there's a lot to innovate in a "dumb pipe" a payment processor naturally is.
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Re:Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
by jacquesm on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @11:50AM
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At scale, payment processors are amongst the most difficult things you could do because every two bit crook out there is going to try to scam you somehow.
Re:Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
by dewey on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @11:44AM
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Can probably build it in a weekend.
Re:Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
by malfist on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @12:03PM
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You let me know when VISA lets you colocate into their rack for processing payments with your built in a weekend vibe coded project.
Re:Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
by dewey on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @12:18PM
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I guess I should've added "/s" :P
Re:Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
by pestaa on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @12:19PM
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dewey was joking.
Re:Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
by elictronic on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @12:51PM
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Management reading a thread like this need the /s.
Re:Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
by ggregoire on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @01:19PM
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in 2 hours with claude code
Re:Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
by xarope on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @01:25AM
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I know you mean this with a /s, but hey, we just need a proper File Transfer Protocol, an SQL-lite database server, and some simple vibe coded python business logic, no test cases required.
What can go wrong... (/s just in case as well)
Re:Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
by zer00eyz on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @12:03PM
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The thing is they have "tooling" to help create their own customers:
They also have a tax product, and a few other things that are in the orbit around payment processing.
Their product offerings are a bit more than just the "dumb pipe" portion of the transaction.