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Why Stripe paid $1B for Metronome instead of fixing Billing


Stripe paid $1B for Metronome, a competitor to their own billing product. The reason reveals an architectural gap: Stripe Billing maxes out at 1,000 events/sec while modern AI companies need 100,000+. That’s not a feature gap—it’s a fundamental architecture problem.

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