&quot;The whole purpose of Stripe is to make basic tools for starting an internet business more broadly available and without barriers.&quot;<p>Well, I didn&#x27;t have to publicly shame PayPal and wait for years to get invited to use their platform. So I guess they fill better the whole purpose of your company.<p>Stripe was appealing to me (and a whole lot of other developers) because of the developer experience you introduced back then, you kind of felt that Stripe was cool and was made with you in mind. After this experience I felt betrayed (and many others I know).<p>Taking a step back an evaluating all the choices I currently have Stripe is the most expensive one (no volume discounts). PayPal improved their APIs and are now easier to use, and the things you can implement with them are amazing (chained payments, subscriptions, reserved charges, preauthorizations, etc...) I know you can do some of those things with Stripe too, but not all. And your newer product has the amazing feature of being taxed on another country and then deal with double taxation schemes and all the fiscal issues that come attached?<p>No thanks Stripe, you&#x27;ve lost your cool.