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Visa's underlying fundamentals didn't change due to a recession.



Stripe is also in the payments space. I wouldn't expect Stripe's financials to change any more than Visa's during a recession.


Visa makes a ton of money just off of necessary debit card transactions. As far as I know Stripe doesn't have a whole lot of groceries/gas stations/drug stores/doctors offices/etc as customers.

From what I've seen Stripe mostly has customers that are selling non-essential services and luxury goods. They'd be far more likely to suffer during a recession than Visa. I mean, Visa does around 1,700 transactions per second on average [1] and handled over 2 trillion dollars in a single quarter last year [2]

[1] https://hackernoon.com/the-blockchain-scalability-problem-th...

[2] https://www.digitaltransactions.net/visa-surpasses-2-trillio...




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