We now offer upwards of a dozen products on the Stripe platform that go way
beyond payments processing—from products for incorporation and billing
management to fraud prevention and managing corporate spending. To manage the
growing complexity, we introduced the concept of Anchor Tenants at Stripe this
year. (This term comes from American malls, where there may be a large store
that draws customers and traffic for the smaller stores.)
For us, those are our core products: Payments (payments acceptance), Connect
(marketplaces and platforms), and Billing (recurring revenue and invoicing).
The...