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

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Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community. The company was ultimately acquired by PayPal in 2013, and now represents a sizable chunk of its merchant business. Stripe is powering online commerce for merchants of all sizes through its suite of payment services APIs.

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How Banks Can Stay Relevant In The Era Of SaaS Dominance

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It got the job done, Aberman told Webster, but it was clunky and had the unintended consequence of keeping all three parties — the SMB, the software provider and the merchant acquirer/processor — “at arm’s length.” That is your entry point into how you are going to manage your business, and that is pretty scary for traditional banks.