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• @tim Tim Bradshaw on x

  FT EXCLUSIVE: Stripe has closed a $600m fundraising valuing the company at $95bn - making it the most valuable private company Silicon Valley has ever produced. w/ @MilesKruppa https://www.ft.com/...

• @patrickc Patrick Collison on x

  We just raised a new round of financing to help support our international expansion and efforts to enable the global startup ecosystem. I'm particularly proud that it's co-led by NTMA, the Irish sovereign wealth fund. Some new stats in article below too. https://stripe.com/...

• @destraynor Des Traynor on x

  How it started.............How it's going But seriously, huge congrats to everyone at Stripe. You continue to inspire and amaze. https://twitter.com/...

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  The lesson always is: focus on expanding the market, not taking the market. https://twitter.com/...

• @jasoncwarner Jason Warner on x

  I will die on this hill The best approach to business and life is ‘pie expansion’. Grow the pie for you and everyone else. Expand the market Sure, you want to take as much of the market as you can, but don't lose the forest for the trees https://twitter.com/...

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  “Stripe itself is now bigger [by payment volumes] than the entire ecommerce market was when we started working on Stripe” https://twitter.com/...

• @ryan_browne_ @ryan_browne_ on x

  WOW. Stripe just raised $600 million at a *$95 billion* valuation. That cements its position as the most valuable US unicorn, leaping ahead of SpaceX. https://stripe.com/...

• @ow @ow on x

  It's weird to watch an obviously $1tn company just....being made. https://ft.com/...

• @patrickmcgee_ Patrick McGee on x

  Stripe now worth $95bn Founded in 2010 by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison — now 32 and 30 — Stripe's valuation has almost 3x under a year, surpassing those achieved by Facebook and Uber before they went public. ⁦⁦@MilesKruppa⁩ @tim ⁦ https://giftarticle.ft.com/...

• @kr00ney Kate Rooney on x

  Stripe is now the most valuable private U.S. company (topping SpaceX) at $95 billion 💸 Comes after massive growth in online economy during pandemic... x3 last valuation. Investors: Allianz, Fidelity, Sequoia Capital, Baillie Gifford AND the sovereign wealth fund of Ireland 🇮🇪 htt…

• @martindshanahan Martin D Shanahan on x

  Congratulations to @patrickc and @collision. Stripe valuation soars after latest fundraising. @Stripe to expand its presence significantly in Dublin, Ireland. https://www.ft.com/...

• @jasonlk @jasonlk on x

  The kind of dilution really you barely notice https://twitter.com/...

• @mulligan Brenden Mulligan on x

  I've been trying to find a way to invest in Stripe for $89 billion in valuation increase (3 years). I'm so excited for them, and obsessed with the product, but it's a shame mostly only giant funds are allowed to be a part of the real upside of private co (besides early angels). h…

• @nycsouthpaw Southpaw on x

  That's a lot of billions. https://twitter.com/...

• @derekpetey Derek on x

  @michaelbatnick Stripe will have more of an actual business at IPO than Facebook did, too.

• @sarthakgh Sar Haribhakti on x

  “Stripe now counts more than 50 category leaders—companies processing each more than $1 billion annually—as customers. Enterprise revenue is now both Stripe's largest and its fastest growing segment, more than doubling year over year.” https://twitter.com/...

• @ingridlunden Ingrid on x

  Stripe+2 big insurance investors=Stripe Insure? No need to wonder who will become the “Stripe for insurance”... maybe it might just be Stripe. https://twitter.com/...

• @martinsfp Martin Sfp Bryant on x

  @Techmeme “the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley”....ever.

• @can @can on x

  600m/95b = .63% soooo free money? https://twitter.com/...

• @sehaj23 Sehaj Singh on x

  As @eladgil says, when you look at the fund raise journey of any once in a generation company, every successive round feels cheap in hindsight. An upcoming trend that we should watch out for is the output of value per employee. Stripe at $95B has less than 4K employees. https://t…

• @paddycosgrave @paddycosgrave on x

  It's some achievement when you think that @stripe is now more valuable than the 20 biggest companies on the Irish stock exchange combined 🤯

• @rohangrey Rohan Grey on x

  Nothing says “market socialism” like a sovereign wealth fund investing in a fintech company that provides services which should already be provided by public payments infrastructure. But think of the dividends! https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  “Stripe itself is now bigger [by payment volumes] than the entire ecommerce market was when we started working on Stripe,” - @collision Stripe & Shopify are the biggest winners of the next wave of enabling SMBs to go online. I'd invest at any valuation. https://www.ft.com/...

• @philbak1 @philbak1 on x

  @michaelbatnick It'll outlast Facebook too

• @stonkresearch @stonkresearch on x

  @michaelbatnick Stripe takes a % of every sale of online companies that use FB to advertise. If your advertising spend is +ive expected value, and you get organic sales, then Stripe should earn more revenue over time Post idea: map out theoretical company that advertises and uses…

• @tanayj Tanay Jaipuria on x

  Stripe is reportedly doing more in payment volume than Adyen which processed ~$360B in 2020. https://www.ft.com/...

• @ryan_browne_ @ryan_browne_ on x

  Irish PM says Stripe will create 1,000 jobs in Ireland over the next 5 years 👇 https://twitter.com/...

• @katie_roof @katie_roof on x

  Stripe finally announced the funding round that I broke a few months back. I had reported that they were having early conversations ranging from $70 to $100b valuation. It came in at $95b https://stripe.com/...

• @paddycosgrave @paddycosgrave on x

  IMHO Stripe may likely one day be a trillion dollar company They're building the world's best infrastructure common to all forms of monetary exchange It's probably one of the crazier bets I've ever seen a sovereign wealth fund anywhere in the world make, but likely a great one ht…

• @akindolu Sola on x

  Stripe is definitely in the league of Google, Facebook and Amazon. There's no ceiling!

• @bigblackjacobin Edward Ongweso Jr on x

  C'mon guys this is getting ridiculous https://twitter.com/...

• @paschald Paschal Donohoe on x

  Great news by @stripe & @NTMA_IE signaling exciting new plans for 🇮🇪 , for job creation &for the future growth of many more companies. Significant & timely announcement of 1k new jobs here over next 5 yrs will bring with it great opportunities. I wish @stripe every future success…

• @noelrock Noel Rock on x

  Stripe valuation soars to $95bn after latest fundraising - making it the most valuable private company Silicon Valley has produced. Ireland's NTMA among the investors this round - https://www.ft.com/...

• @michaelbatnick Michael Batnick on x

  Stripe will have a larger market cap at its IPO than Facebook did.

• @edwinwee Edwin on x

  Stripe has raised a Series G P T N to expand its Global Payments and Treasury Network across Europe. https://twitter.com/...

• @techcrunch @techcrunch on x

  Stripe closes $600M round at a $95B valuation https://techcrunch.com/... by @ingridlunden