How Stripe Became a $35B Challenger to PayPal!

A Multi-billion-Dollar Company With a New Approach to Payments

Jawad Bahoum
Nov 3 · 5 min read

Buy something on Amazon? Stripe. Order a Lyft? Stripe again. Book a room on Expedia? You guessed it … Stripe! The list continues. Basically, if you pull out your wallet to shop for anything online, you can bet you will be using Stripe. Think of the term “middleman”, and it conjures…

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Jawad Bahoum

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HR Management Graduate with a wide range of interests including digital marketing, business, politics and technology. Patreon: https://bit.ly/2JyycQQ

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