> Today, we are excited to announce that we are joining forces with Stripe, to power the next wave of GDP growth globally.

This is some high level meaningless corpo speak.

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Lalabadie 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I get where it's coming from, I like Stripe's long-stated mission ("To increase the GDP of the Internet").

This version is dumb/empty, and reads like brown-nosing Stripe.

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jonahx 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I like Stripe's long-stated mission ("To increase the GDP of the Internet").

Also corporate speak. Their mission is take their cut of the Internet's GDP. Nothing against them, they provide real value for that cut. But that's what the actual mission is.

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Brendinooo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's not mutually exclusive. I remember the Bad Old Days of trying to make the PayPal button work; if Stripe makes it easier for people to take payment online then it increases the GDP of the Internet.

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amcvitty 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That feels unfair to read it that way. The mission as stated is that they will not only take a cut of the pie but grow the pie. If the total value they add is greater than the value they capture, everyone wins.

You might not believe them, but that’s what the words are supposed to mean.

	▲	jonahx 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> You might not believe them, but that’s what the words are supposed to mean. It's corporate bullshit not because I don't believe they can grow the pie, but because that's not their motivation. In fact, a nice formula for coming up with your corporate mission statement would be: 1. Ignore your company's ground-truth financial incentives 2. Find a positive 2nd order effect E (or a plausible one) that you don't really care about, but maybe you genuinely think is nice 3. Claim your "passion for E" is what drove you to start your company, and keeps you working, because, of course, all great companies must have a "deeper purpose"
	▲	anticorporate 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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maelito 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well given the commissions of Stripe's, is mostly about its own GDP.

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strbean 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm curious about the GDP vs. GNP of the internet :)

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glohbalrob 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

thats what billions does

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rossdavidh 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One unexpected "benefit" of LLMs is that it is training us all to be even better at recognizing "you don't even know what you mean by that, do you?"

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toomuchtodo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/stripe-payments-openrouter-...

https://stripe.com/annual-updates/2025

> Stripe last said businesses on its platform generated $1.9 trillion in payment volume in 2025, up 34% year over year.

More transaction volume = more enterprise value potential. More GDP, total rake goes up of said economic activity they facilitate. Middleman Moat, accumulating volume (present via Paypal, future via OpenRouter).

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binary132 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Big line go up!

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KennyBlanken 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's particularly stupid given that if you look at where the tokens are being spent, the top application overwhelmingly is Hermes Agent. It's more than the next six clients combined.

Hermes Agent is AI slop "ai assistant" software that is being entirely developed by a bunch of AI agents. They are stuck in a constant whack-a-mole bug fix session because the agents keep breaking things.

Openrouter is being entirely propped up by garbage-tier software that is only popular because it's being endlessly hyped by idiot youtuber AI Agent Bros who are so uncreative and incapable of critical thought, they're using AI agents to tell them what content to make.

When people finally realize how bad Hermes is, OpenRouter is pretty fucked. And then when all the weebs writing furry porn get bored and move on, they'll be fucked even more.

What's really bad about this: Stripe is so tightly tied to the credit card industry that said industry's obsession with morality policing will force Stripe to start censoring openrouter.