[mercwear]

I hope they hold off - going public tends to kill innovation and replace it with bureaucracy

[anovikov]

Almost as if there's a lot to innovate in a "dumb pipe" a payment processor naturally is.

[jacquesm]

At scale, payment processors are amongst the most difficult things you could do because every two bit crook out there is going to try to scam you somehow.

[dewey]

Can probably build it in a weekend.

[zer00eyz]

The thing is they have "tooling" to help create their own customers:

https://stripe.com/atlas

They also have a tax product, and a few other things that are in the orbit around payment processing.

Their product offerings are a bit more than just the "dumb pipe" portion of the transaction.