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by joshmanders 1396 days ago
> Just wild that AMEX and other banks have zero issue giving us a limit 3-5x that (verified it today!) but Stripe can't.

Probably because Stripe is about 50-60B in valuation lower than AMEX and AMEX is a bank with long history with the government so bailouts are probably a high possibility for them to play loose like that. Stripe not so much.