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was_boring on Sept 26, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stripe Is Now a $20B Company

I would imagine that they have an integration with dozens of providers. It makes sense to spread it out so your business cannot be bullied by any single third party dependency and you can pit them against each other to get favorable terms across the board.

debacle on Sept 26, 2018 [–]

When you are as big as Amazon, there's a lot of money left on the table if you're running payments through a third party.

Aeolun on Sept 26, 2018 | [–]

Not necessarily. You can likely bring your own processor and the deal you negotiated with them.

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