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Keyframe on Aug 16, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

If it's as difficult as they say it is, how did Stripe do it?

danielmarkbruce on Aug 16, 2025 [–]

They worked at it for a long time before launch, started with a very narrow product and only had customers they actually knew (reduces fraud a lot), worked like crazy, operated in a market where the competition was abysmal.

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