Genuine question, what’s the real value proposition of Stripe?
They do have a slick integration process for outside developers, but is that enough for to justify the financial values attached to them in the recent past?
As one of the earliest stripe customers, yes, that was the reason why we switched to them from Authorize.net.
Developer docs and easy API integration was, and is still, their "stickyness". But the eco-system of new products they've added have grown that moat to make it easy and cost-efficient to offload more and more of the financial and subscription stack onto Stripe. It's a virtuous cycle
They do have a slick integration process for outside developers, but is that enough for to justify the financial values attached to them in the recent past?