1. Stripe is a private company, it hasn't IPO'd.
2. YC was an early investor in Stripe, but as a late stage company, Stripe has many, many stakeholders that are investors: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stripe/company_finan... to think that they're beholden to YC and would make business decisions for the sake of YC companies -- oof.
But I'm sure you been paying attention to the markets....
This isn't actually what you said in your original post, but sure, let's breakdown this too. Under "Featured apps" there's Mailchimp, Dropbox, Google Drive, Bench Accounting, Ramp, and Render. Dropbox is the only one I recognize as a YC company.
I pay attention to a lot of things. What do you pay attention to?
Just open up a chart and have a go at the numerous tickers YC is involved with. Are those stocks that you would trust your life savings with and that its a conspiracy that they are struggling with potential problems to capital and liquidity?
If you are going to simp for YC at least have skin in the game
Is a baseless conspiracy. Back it up with facts! If you can, we're all here to listen. Accusing someone of being a simp because they think your argument is baseless and weak is not a great way to strengthen your argument.
Now that we have that out of the way, do you have any facts to hold up your baseless claims?