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Out of curiosity, why don't you release metrics? I would like to use Stripe for one of my startups.. but wasn't able to find any numbers.. so since the company

Out of curiosity, why don't you release metrics? I would like to use Stripe for one of my startups.. but wasn't able to find any numbers.. so since the company is young, and you get a small fraction of the total processed... with 30 employees at Stripe... I figure you have a huge burn rate.. and I'm hesitant to use it.. not when I'm already familiar with authnet, paypal, and others.. Stripe looks great, but no numbers means I can't be sure if you guys are doing well.. or if I'm going to be doing an integration with a different company in a year.

pc 13y ago
Want to drop me an email? patrick@stripe.com. Would be happy to describe our thinking and see if we can help out with your startup. (Also -- we're now 85 people and have companies like Rackspace and Hubspot using Stripe in case that helps :-).)
dangrossman 13y ago
> I can't be sure if you guys are doing well.. or if I'm going to be doing an integration with a different company in a year. If you can spend a couple extra bucks, you might consider integrating with Spreedly instead of with any individual processor. They're a unified API for 55+ gateways, and a gateway-agnostic card vault. This is one of the worries using them eliminates; you can use Stripe no matter what your concerns are, because if they do disappear in a year, you can point your sites back at Authnet or whoever you prefer without changing any code. No interruption of service, no lost customer info to continue billing. http://www.spreedly.com http://www.spreedly.com You do have to trust Spreedly will still be around, but that's much easier than trusting in a new processor. Unlike a payment processor, they don't suffer from existential threats like a failure in their risk evaluation allowing a fraud event to wipe out a month's worth of profit at a time. Their business model basically prints money (run an API, keep a few pennies of each transaction) and they've been at it for years.

pc 13y ago

Want to drop me an email? patrick@stripe.com. Would be happy to describe our thinking and see if we can help out with your startup. (Also -- we're now 85 people and have companies like Rackspace and Hubspot using Stripe in case that helps :-).)

dangrossman 13y ago

> I can't be sure if you guys are doing well.. or if I'm going to be doing an integration with a different company in a year. If you can spend a couple extra bucks, you might consider integrating with Spreedly instead of with any individual processor. They're a unified API for 55+ gateways, and a gateway-agnostic card vault. This is one of the worries using them eliminates; you can use Stripe no matter what your concerns are, because if they do disappear in a year, you can point your sites back at Authnet or whoever you prefer without changing any code. No interruption of service, no lost customer info to continue billing. http://www.spreedly.com http://www.spreedly.com You do have to trust Spreedly will still be around, but that's much easier than trusting in a new processor. Unlike a payment processor, they don't suffer from existential threats like a failure in their risk evaluation allowing a fraud event to wipe out a month's worth of profit at a time. Their business model basically prints money (run an API, keep a few pennies of each transaction) and they've been at it for years.