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What's the story of Adyen?

• akie 9y ago
  https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/01/20/meet-adyen-the-little-known-unicorn-collecting-cash-for-nextflix-uber-spotify-and-facebook/#27c20d10d26c https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/01/20/meet-a...
• toptal 9y ago
  Adyen is ~$10b startup and actually significantly larger than Stripe. They don't get a lot of press because they have a terrible name, most likely. They are significantly better for large consumer facing companies than anyone.
  • mraison 9y ago
    What's so terrible about the name? (genuinely curious, I may have missed something as a non-native English speaker)
    • toptal 9y ago
      It's hard to pronounce and means nothing.
      • com 9y ago
        Adyen means something, just not in English. Their website says it means “again” in Surinamese, probably because a previous business of theirs was rolled into what is now Worldpay. Ad-yen doesn’t seem too hard to say for me.