The $7 Billion AI Middle Man: Stripe Buys OpenRouter

Josh: Just three months ago, investors valued OpenRouter at $1.3 billion. Josh: And this weekend, Stripe agreed to buy it for more than $7 billion.

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1. 01Josh: That's 50 times their revenue, which is outrageous when you look at what other Josh: companies in this industry are trading at
2. 02So Stripe just bought this take rate of 15 times higher than what it's used Josh: to in the fastest growing industry on earth
3. 03Josh: In AI, the attention is kind of moving from the model layer to the middlemen