What is the marketshare for Stripe compared to PayPal and Square? Why is Stripe so respected on Blind compared to PayPal and Square? Is Stripe dominating the payments space?
bigger by what measure? revenue? employees? PV? profit? I’d say Stripe is an internet/SV “darling” because the founders are solid people and we’re super developer friendly.
Square has 4.5 ⭐ on Blind compared to Stripe's 4.1 ⭐.
Stripe’s was 4.3 less than half a year ago. As rapidly growing companies are wont to do, we are going through change, and went through a lot of hire-and-fire-fast cycles. Stripe is great, but doesn’t always feel the most stable or psychologically safe for career growth unless you are absolutely sure of your abilities. Being absolutely sure of your abilities means you have to avoid stretches of bad luck too. If you are having challenges raising kids from home, death in the family, sickness, etc — a bad couple months can be the end of your career there. The Collisons are becoming ruthless, Bezos-esque in some ways (and will probably come out very successful). The deteriorating rating is probably a lagging indicator of that. I won’t say Square is better because I don’t know, but Dorsey is more seasoned and the company is already post-IPO, tells me they are more stable, mature and humane. I believe in Stripe long-term, and that holds high standards and will absolutely thrive as a business. Its growth and product quality blows my mind, even as an insider.
A lot of the ratings seem inflated. The "popular" 3 ⭐ review reads like a 2 ⭐ at best. Many of the others seem far more negative than their rating. Your assessment seems pretty negative too TBQH.
Stripe has higher comp. Other than that I think square wins in all fronts.
Hard to say now with SQ skyrocketing and Stipe changing RSU offers to fixed dollar amount per year
Stripe isn’t bigger than PayPal or Square in any way. The main difference is Stripe is a startup while PayPal and Square are public companies.
I N N O V A T I O N 🙌🏼🌈 Dominating? Not yet by TPV, but down the line definitely