Stripe raises more than $6.5B at $50B valuation in fall from 2021 peak

This key point is this:

> In a tough funding environment, it provides the San Francisco- and Dublin-based group with enough new capital to meet billions of dollars of tax liabilities associated with employees’ stock units, but also leaves it with a new valuation of $50bn — far below its peak of $95bn in 2021.

They have had to take a massive haircut in valuation in order to raise capital to pay employees tax liabilities, due to failing to have a liquidity event in the last 10 years.

They must be kicking themselves they didn't IPO in 2019.