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Starting to compete directly with a lot of their customers. Big change in strategy.
by flibble 6y ago
Starting to compete directly with a lot of their customers. Big change in strategy.
- CharlesW 6y agoHow so? Are there checkout-experiences-as-a-service vendors that use Stripe under-the-hood?
- codegeek 6y agoyes many.
- eshyong 6y agoIt seems like payment/e-commerce companies in general are shifting towards offering "express checkout" experiences nowadays - Shopify, Paypal, Amazon Pay, are a couple prominent examples. My former employer Affirm was also very concerned about owning the checkout experience/acquiring users up-funnel. It's a smart move, really.
- bobthepanda 6y agoWe always hear about how payment networks manage to nickel and dime merchants to produce lots of revenue, so it was probably only a matter of time before other players in the process wanted a piece of that action.
- Ensorceled 6y agoMany SaaS have product pages as a value add-on for their SaaS offering, so competitors, but not in the very limited way you stated.
- bdcravens 6y agoCheckout has existed since 2013. http://web.archive.org/web/20130113004155/https://stripe.com/docs/checkout http://web.archive.org/web/20130113004155/https://stripe.com...