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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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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