Stripe fascination

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Duh!!!

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Sep 2, 2020 10 Comments

I see a lot of positive reviews of stripe here and I want to know why that is the case.
In my opinion the only good thing about Stripe is the potential to be really rich because of IPO but tech wise all fin tech companies suck.
There is very few tech innovation happening at any fintech company have friends work at Google Pay and fintech companies in India, you could say the same for most teams at FAANG but you do have an option to work on teams working on open engineering problems and you get real money.
So I wonder what is the fascination with paper money and mediocre problems??

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  • Uber / Eng
    aGbt

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    Google
    aGbt
    Who wouldn't want to spend all their time documenting APIs and integrating with legacy financial systems using Ruby and Mongo for paper money that's overvalued because the founder is the VC twitter darling? Sounds like a dream job!
    Sep 2, 2020 2
  • Visa
    dragonfi

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    dragonfi
    I don’t think it’s as much other people being fascinated with Stripe, but rather you being bitter towards it
    Sep 2, 2020 2
    • Google
      Duh!!!

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      Duh!!!
      OP
      Lol, no I genuinely want to know what excites folks about stripe. I have a few freinds workin at Visa too, tech challenges there aren’t particularly interesting in fintech space in general
      Sep 2, 2020
    • Visa
      dragonfi

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      dragonfi
      I will say that there’s a lot of engineering jobs that don’t solve grand problems. Some people are fine with that. There are also engineers at fin techs who solve interesting problems, just have to find the right team. I will admit that fin tech in the west is quite outdated. Lots of dinosaur companies like Visa with big market share. It will take an outsider like google or Apple to disrupt the space. Something like what China has will eventually be a reality here, and it won’t come from a fintech company
      Sep 2, 2020
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  • Facebook
    holasenior

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    holasenior
    It’s because of $$$.
    Sep 2, 2020 0
  • eBay
    DoRiMiFa

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    DoRiMiFa
    Really? Not only me but everybody lost sleep during COVID?
    Sep 2, 2020 0