Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B
It's not that I don't like Stripe, but was it really so difficult to process payments before? When I start working with online payments in 2007/2008 we had multiple easy to use solutions for processing at least credit and debit cards.<p>You could have a test account in less than an hour, and be ready to process real transactions in less than a week.<p>Stripe has plenty of competition, most of which have been around longer. You could argue that Stripe have a better API and that certainly has value.