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Stripe

includes Stripe Capital, Stripe Climate, Stripe Connect, Stripe API, Stripe App Marketplace, Stripe Atlas, Stripe Billing, Stripe Card, Stripe Checkout, Stripe Custom

46 statements across 37 episodes · 16 bullish · 7 bearish · 36 people on the record · first statement Aug 19, 2016 by Julie Fredrickson · said 435 times in 216 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Nathan Latka (153), Chris Federspiel (14), Shushma Sharma (12), Ralph Dangelmaier (8), Carl Groves (7), Shibo Zhu (6), Norbert Huthmeyer (6), Javi Fondavilla (6)

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Everything said about Stripe, oldest first

Aug 19, 2016
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fredrickson: Stowaway runs a real-time BI dashboard using Google Sheets and Zapier
“We have a business intelligence dashboard that's run through Google Sheets using Zapier that integrates all of our business data. So we have a real-time look at what's going on. So Stripe sales data, CRM, NPS scores, Google Apps.”
Julie Fredrickson Aug 19, 2016 ▶ 22:47 EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company
Mar 16, 2017 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sharma: Marketplace provider friction comes from Stripe forms, not fees
“No, not Stripe fee. They have no issue with the Stripe fee. It's the Stripe form, the form, the filling of the form, giving all their personal information, which is where a little bit of.”
Shushma Sharma Mar 16, 2017 ▶ 9:59 EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma
Mar 16, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Sharma: Konversai takes a 10% fee on paid user conversations
“We get 10% of which three, a little over three percent goes to Stripe for the money management, and the rest comes to us.”
Shushma Sharma Mar 16, 2017 ▶ 6:10 EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma
Mar 18, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dangelmaier: BlueSnap achieves higher global transaction approval rates than Stripe
“Where we differ from Stripe is we're much more global, so we actually have many banks around the world so we can actually help transactions get through at a higher rate than Stripe does.”
Ralph Dangelmaier Mar 18, 2018 ▶ 3:13 967 With $1b+ In Transaction Volume, He Helps Merchants Get Power of Amazon Checkout
Mar 18, 2018 neutral
Assertion Supported
Dangelmaier: BlueSnap charges generally the same rates as Stripe
“We charge generally the same rates that Stripe does in this market.”
Ralph Dangelmaier Mar 18, 2018 ▶ 5:09 967 With $1b+ In Transaction Volume, He Helps Merchants Get Power of Amazon Checkout
Sep 8, 2018 neutral
Assertion Supported
Florio: Foxy supports 100 payment gateways, including Stripe
“So we're, we support a hundred different payment gateways, including Stripe.”
Brett Florio Sep 8, 2018 ▶ 3:30 1141 Not shopify, not stripe, $2b+ in transaction volume processed
Sep 8, 2018 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Florio: Larger businesses avoid Stripe for Paymentech and Vantiv
“A lot of people, especially larger businesses, aren't going to stripe. They're using payment tech or Vantive or what have you. So, you know, automatically stripes out.”
Brett Florio Sep 8, 2018 ▶ 4:05 1141 Not shopify, not stripe, $2b+ in transaction volume processed
Mar 9, 2019
Disclosure
Kirk Simpson: Wave shifted from Stripe to in-house infrastructure as it scaled
“Our payments business, for instance, was built on top of Stripe. We get to a point of scale and quite frankly, our users want us to deeply integrate it. And so most of this stuff over time, we've been building ourselves.”
Kirk Simpson Mar 9, 2019 ▶ 3:10 1323 How FinTech Company Wave Is Deploying $100m in Capital, $25m+ in ARR
Mar 12, 2019
Disclosure
Outseta charges a flat $99 monthly fee plus 2.9% payment processing
“So it's 99 dollars per month. That's it. And then we take a 2.9% processing fee on our billing tools, which is the same as Stripe, for example.”
Jeff Roberts Mar 12, 2019 ▶ 3:41 1326 Can He Combine Mailchimp, Hubspot, Zenefits at $99/mo Price Point and Win SMB's Over?
Sep 22, 2019 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Stripe requires separate country integrations while BlueSnap uses one, claims Dangelmaier
“Well, Stripe is, is it's similar to what Stripe does because Stripe does that in a single country. What we've done is we've been able to globalize it through many countries through one integration. So with Stripe, you have to go do it say seven times against s…”
Ralph Dangelmaier Sep 22, 2019 ▶ 7:46 1520 BlueSnap Wants to Help Merchants Compete with Amazon
Apr 26, 2020 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Meek: Stripe Estimates Technical Debt Costs Companies $85B Annually
“Stripe came out with a really great report in September last year. It's called the developer coefficient. They estimate technical debt to cost companies eighty-five billion dollars annually, and they estimate a developer to be spending over 17 hours a week out…”
Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 2:37 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue
Jun 18, 2020 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arnott: Stripe banned Seller SEO at $9K MRR over broken cancellation button
“So we got to about 9000 dollars MMR. And then we had a programming issue where the cancel button wasn't working on our software and with Stripe, they have a one percent chargeback rate and then they boot you. And so we ended up getting booted from Stripe.”
Andy Arnott Jun 18, 2020 ▶ 8:35 SellerSEO Gets Booted From Stripe, Now Rebounding and Bootstrapped
Jul 18, 2020 positive
Disclosure
JustCall took $25,000 in debt from Stripe
“We got, like, some debt, I mean, just raised some debt from Stripe, like, that 25,000 dollars, you know, just to play around with, like, how it works. Then we're also talking to Clearbank to get some 50, 60 K to, you know, pay to some of the agencies that we a…”
Gaurav Sharma Jul 18, 2020 ▶ 13:32 JustCall Hits $2.5m ARR, 60% Profits, Bootstrapped Helping 1600 Teams Use Cloud Phone Systems
Aug 23, 2020 neutral
Assertion Supported
Duke: Large merchants cannot page through Stripe's API for warehouse data
“If you're a really big merchant you can't just page through Stripe's API to get all the data you need to, like, go into a data warehouse or figure out your MRR or APRU, stuff like that.”
Justin Duke Aug 23, 2020 ▶ 2:10 ButtonDown Email Is Niche Mailchimp, Hits $5k in MRR
Oct 4, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sandhills Development averages 4% to 5% monthly churn across its core products
“So I roughly average these before we hopped on and we do about four to five percent.”
Pippin Williamson Oct 4, 2020 ▶ 20:46 SandHill Dev Sells $55k/mo Side Project for $1m+, Now Building 4 Other Products $3.6m Run Rate
Oct 12, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Trakto publicly shares its live revenue and churn data via Baremetrics
“We use Barometrics and we have the open data. If people want to check out because it's connected to Stripe, which is our main gateway, you go through tracto.barometrics.com and then you can check out How we are dealing churn and ARPU and everything else.”
Paulo Tenório Oct 12, 2020 ▶ 16:39 Trakto Hits $30k MRR With Canva Competitor. Can They Hit $1m ARR?
Oct 24, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Fondavilla: Holded is launching embedded payments partnered with Stripe
“We're about to deploy our first let's say, this is around this, which is hold the payments together with Stripe payment initiation to start offering this type of services to our customers.”
Javi Fondavilla Oct 24, 2020 ▶ 2:32 Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million
Oct 24, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Fondavilla: Holded gets 20% to 30% revenue share on Stripe payments
“So, for example, in the payment gateway, as we're partnering with Stripe, so they are giving us a revenue share on top of their commission, no? So if they charge a, 2.8% and we can get 20, 30% commission, no? So we'll be having, I think, something like 0.8 or …”
Javi Fondavilla Oct 24, 2020 ▶ 15:39 Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million
Dec 7, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Groves: Tenon used Stripe Advance to pay down credit card debt
“We did a Stripe Advance because I wanted to pay down some credit card debt, and the rate that they gave was way better than the credit card.”
Carl Groves Dec 7, 2020 ▶ 14:32 Tenon Hits 2m Revenue In Automated Testing Space
Jan 8, 2021
Insight
McCormick: Writing about Stripe drives more employee shares than Facebook
“Like I wrote about Stripe and then everybody at Stripe reads the piece where you write about, you know, X, Y, Z company that's big enough that it can have an impact. But small enough that they're not being written about every day. Like, you know, people within…”
Packy McCormick Jan 8, 2021 ▶ 8:10 Packy McCormick Not Boring Substack Hits $50k Revenue, 25k Subs
Feb 5, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Suski: Surfer SEO offers a $1-per-week paid trial
“Because we have a paid trial, which is one us dollar per week.”
Michal Suski Feb 5, 2021 ▶ 18:35 How SurferSEO hit $3m Revenue Bootstrapped Using Chrome Extension, Affiliates
Jul 6, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
ConvertKit will not sell early, targeting a decade of further compounding
“We're eight years in and like selling and being done now is just way too early. And so it's really like, if I want to build a MailChimp level company or a Stripe level company or something like that, then it's like, great show up for another decade.”
Nathan Berry Jul 6, 2021 ▶ 22:34 ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?
Aug 13, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Plypad Processes Payments Like Stripe for Offline Brazilian Businesses
“So basically we, our main engine is a payment processing system. So we do process all those payments just like Stripe would do. But we don't do Online we do our public is, our audience is roughly offline and well there's a lot of things in, in quote to cash, r…”
Cássio (Casio) Aug 13, 2021 ▶ 4:38 Brazilian Quote to Cash SaaS Hits $10k in MRR up from $2k, $250k raised at $2.5m Valuation
Sep 7, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
FlowChat reached $40,216 in monthly recurring revenue
“Like our current MRR is just over 40,000. 40,216 as of right now, like per Stripe.”
Chris Baden Sep 7, 2021 ▶ 3:48 FlowChat Goes From $0 to $40k MRR in 4 Months Using 1 Tactic
Mar 1, 2022
Assertion Partly supported
Falk: Top dev tools like Stripe took 2+ years between Seed and Series A
“You also look at Stripe and a bunch like Vercel, some of these other really big developer tools companies straight after YC, they raised the seed round, but then it took them a long time to raise their series A, raising going from series A to series B. That wa…”
Brendan Falk Mar 1, 2022 ▶ 16:29 DevOps Tool Fig Raised $2.2m in 2020, Now Approaching 100k MAU's, Whats Next?
Mar 8, 2022 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Stripe pays $350k for mid-range software engineers in Ireland
“I mean, I see on these boards on Reddit that Stripe are paying 350 K for mid-range engineers. I mean, that's madness in Ireland.”
Luke Feeney Mar 8, 2022 ▶ 14:53 This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation
Jul 6, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Keeley: Justifi operates like Stripe Custom Connect without extra development
“I think if you think about us as like a Stripe custom connect with for vertical SaaS platforms where they don't have to build all this stuff on top of it to get the best economics.”
Joe Keeley Jul 6, 2022 ▶ 1:26 SaaS company and want to move into payments? Justifi helps you do it fast. Almost $5b in platform GMV across 36 customers today.
Jul 10, 2022
Disclosure
DeCruz: About half of Maynu's 8% fee goes to Stripe
“About half of that goes to Stripe. Well, we don't make very much.”
Aaron DeCruz Jul 10, 2022 ▶ 2:21 He sold his bakery to launch software for Restaurants, $36k in revenue already
Oct 18, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bootstrapped Expandi hit $3.1M ARR in year one and $7M recently
“Our run rate. We hit in our Stripe account mid-November, 2019 at zero dollars. Within one year, we closed at somewhere around 3.1 million. Last year we hit six million in annual run rate, and recently we reached a seven million.”
Stefan Smulders Oct 18, 2022 ▶ 3:36 Free Customer Formula: How I grew Expandi from $0 to $7m in 20 months without spending money on ads
Nov 11, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
PPC Ad Lab signed 76 customers and collected $22,000 in seven days
“We signed up 76 paying customers in seven days collected 22 K in cash, And that cash came to part because nearly 10% of our buyers bought the annual plan.”
Robert Warner Nov 11, 2022 ▶ 14:01 How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year
Apr 28, 2023 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Federspiel: Blackthorn makes roughly $1M annually from its Stripe revenue share
“And now we're making somewhere in the vicinity of like a million a year off of that partnership, where our customers don't get charged.”
Chris Federspiel Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 9:09 Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue
Apr 28, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Federspiel created 930 unique custom prices in Stripe for early Blackthorn customers
“I had 930 different prices that I looked in my Stripe product price book over the first three years. I had a unique price for every single customer.”
Chris Federspiel Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 12:39 Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue
Jun 26, 2023 positive
Insight
Delivet: SaaS onboarding should delay friction steps until go-live
“When you are opening an account on Stripe, you need to go through what we call a QIC, know your customer. So basically, you need to upload all your paperwork about the company. But at this point, you didn't start to do the integration. So what you can do in th…”
Alex Delivet Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 18:22 Tips for Creating a $1m Customer Onboarding Experience
Jul 3, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stripe's 100th Largest Partner Processes Roughly $1B Annually
“To be a top hundred partner of Stripe, The number a hundred process is about a billion a year. So the perspective they're about a top, top 100 strike partner.”
Thomas Smale Jul 3, 2023 ▶ 8:26 Lessons From $1bn in Exits: Behind The Scenes of the ThriveCart Exit
Jul 3, 2023 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ThriveCart's Buyer Tripled Revenue Just By Renegotiating Its Stripe Partnership
“My understanding is the buyer is about tripled revenue of the business by renegotiating a partnership agreement with Stripe.”
Thomas Smale Jul 3, 2023 ▶ 9:18 Lessons From $1bn in Exits: Behind The Scenes of the ThriveCart Exit
Aug 31, 2023
Disclosure
Afsahi: Verified provides B2B verification APIs like 'Stripe for verification'
“So verified basically it's like Stripe, but for verification we provide verification APIs for B to B companies that want to learn more about other companies they want to work with.”
Farhan Afsahi Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 0:58 22 yo Launches B2B Fraud Prevention SaaS That Will Tell you if the China Steel Company is Real or Not
Nov 23, 2023 negative
Opinion
Stern: Stripe is insufficiently sophisticated for recurring utility billing
“It's just not a sophisticated enough tool for reoccurring payments or someone to pause their payments or someone to process, you know, ongoing water or utility bills.”
Rachel Stern Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 7:15 How to build a $30m SaaS in 18 Months focusing on an unsexy niche
Nov 23, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Stern: Streamline captures roughly 1% net margin on platform payments
“We are in, we're processing payments tomorrow, and we're keeping about one percent of that.”
Rachel Stern Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 6:54 How to build a $30m SaaS in 18 Months focusing on an unsexy niche
Nov 23, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Stern: Streamline loses large utility deals due to payment processing gaps
“Stripe is a great stock gap for what our districts need right now, but we are losing out on deals like water and utility districts, which are much bigger fish because we can't process sophisticated.”
Rachel Stern Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 8:19 How to build a $30m SaaS in 18 Months focusing on an unsexy niche
Apr 11, 2024
Disclosure
Lillia: Younium focuses exclusively on complex B2B deals rather than standardized B2C
“We are focused only on B to B, so we don't do any B to C. So you definitely have some players, you know, doing a bit of B to C, and also like B to small B, where it's very, very standardized. Maybe it's an online, 99 dollars a month, very standardized. They ar…”
Nicholas Lillia Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 3:25 How Younium Hit 200 Customers Paying $30k ACV For its Billing and Revenue Analytics tool
Jun 19, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Superwall Customers Are Passing App Review Using Stripe Billing
“Like, so we have, we now have customers that are using super wall to build with Stripe. And they're just getting through app review, like, it's fine.”
Jake Moore Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 19:52 Mobile App King: 2 Lines of Code Make Him $3.6 Million Per Year
Jun 19, 2025 positive
Insight
Moore: Apple's Merchant of Record Services Are Worth Around 15%
“Apple is a merchant of record. And Apple deals with, you know, you don't have to deal with chargebacks, you don't have to deal with disputes, you don't have to deal with taxes. You also don't have to deal with involuntary churn. Because I have news for you. If…”
Jake Moore Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 18:16 Mobile App King: 2 Lines of Code Make Him $3.6 Million Per Year
Jul 15, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bendray: Quizzard generates roughly 100,000 monthly downloads and $400K revenue
“Yeah, it's roughly correct. We also have like our unstuck, which is off of a Stripe, i.e. The web app piece.”
Sid Bendray Jul 15, 2025 ▶ 8:19 How This 25 Year Old College Kid Built a $500K/Month App Empire
Nov 26, 2025
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Reviews.io generated $11M to $12M in ARR at the time of acquisition
“ARR was about 11 to 12 mil at the time. Pure, nice. ARR, really clean stuff. All through strike. Yeah, about 12, I'd say about 12 and a bit change.”
Callum McKeefery Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 2:03 Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table
Dec 24, 2025 positive
Insight
Switching to subscriptions dramatically increased Standout CV revenue
“The mistake I made in the beginning was that I didn't, Go with a monthly recurring plan, a subscription model. I went with a one-time payment plan. And although that initially attracted people, it didn't it ruins subscriber lifetime value. Basically people wit…”
Andrew Fennell Dec 24, 2025 ▶ 6:48 Founder uses Genius Playbook to hit $1M revenue with no employees
Sep 1, 2026 bearish
Insight
Turner: Rapid Revenue Growth Makes Stripe Capital's Effective Interest Rates Insane
“Stripe has fairly good terms. If you pay them back over a year and a half, if you pay them backwards in three months, time value of money and, you know, actual, and what was it internal rate of return for them or whatever, right? Like interest is kind of insan…”
Carl Turner Sep 1, 2026 ▶ 9:56 He Sells AI Door-to-Door. $3.5M ARR, 400% Growth, $0 Ads
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