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Also, Stripe isn’t spending any money on this.

It’s instead become an opportunity for investors to buy lots of Stripe equity (which the cofounders are usually very stingy with—see the percentage of the company they sold during past rounds) at potentially very cheap prices since the sellers don’t get to set the price!

Stripe’s incentive to keep the price high is that it becomes the price point that employees would expect future stock vests to be awarded at. Not sure how strong an incentive that is exactly though