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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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In the same way that Square built a payment-centric ecosystem for brick-and-mortar SMBs and micro-merchants, Stripe has reinvented online payment acceptance. In July 2017, Stripe acquired Payable , a platform that simplifies the process of managing and paying contractors and freelancers. Source: Square. Source: Stripe.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

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In 2017, Andreessen Horowitz general partner Alex Rampell said that of all the tech giants that could make a major move in financial services: “Amazon is the most formidable. The patent expired in 2017 and opened up the market for competitors to launch off-marketplace payment solutions. children, were unbanked in 2017.