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Investors Clamor for a Bigger Piece of Payments Company Stripe<blockquote>投资者要求支付公司 Stripe 获得更大份额</blockquote>
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Bids from those investors exceeded $4 billion, some of the people said.</p><p><blockquote>据知情人士透露,这家处理电子商务业务支付的公司最近为投资者提供了从现有股东(包括现任和前任 Stripe 员工)手中收购该公司大量股份的机会。一些知情人士说,这些投资者的出价超过了40亿美元。</blockquote></p><p> But only about $1 billion of those bids were filled, one of the people said, suggesting that many current Stripe shareholders believe their stock has a long way to climb. Among the largest buyers were mutual-fund giant Capital Group Cos., venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital, e-commerce company Shopify Inc. and buyout firm Silver Lake, some of the people said.</p><p><blockquote>但其中一位知情人士表示,这些出价中只有约 10 亿美元被完成,这表明许多目前的 Stripe 股东认为他们的股价还有很长的路要走。一些知情人士称,最大的买家包括共同基金巨头资本集团公司、风险投资公司红杉资本、电子商务公司Shopify Inc.和收购公司Silver Lake。</blockquote></p><p> Silicon Valley is awash with investors looking for new places to park their money, partly because low interest rates have made some traditional investments unappealing. Stripe, in particular, has garnered interest because it has been turbocharged by the coronavirus-fueled boom in online shopping. After a fundraising round in March, it became the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley, valued at $95 billion.</p><p><blockquote>硅谷挤满了寻找新地方存放资金的投资者,部分原因是低利率使得一些传统投资失去了吸引力。Stripe 尤其引起了人们的兴趣,因为冠状病毒引发的在线购物热潮推动了它的发展。在3月份的一轮融资后,它成为硅谷最有价值的私营公司,估值为950亿美元。</blockquote></p><p> The tender offer, which settled last month, was done at a price around where Stripe sold shares in March, some of the people said.</p><p><blockquote>一些知情人士表示,上个月结算的要约收购价格与 Stripe 三月份出售股票的价格大致相同。</blockquote></p><p> Tender offers have become a popular way for startup investors to amass larger holdings outside of more traditional fundraisings. SoftBank Group Corp., for example, acquired nearly $7 billion of shares in Uber Technologies Inc. in a 2017 tender offer, when Uber was still a private company.</p><p><blockquote>要约收购已成为初创投资者在传统融资之外积累更多股份的一种流行方式。例如,软银集团公司在2017年的要约收购中收购了优步科技公司近70亿美元的股票,当时优步还是一家私营公司。</blockquote></p><p> Many of the large participants in Stripe’s tender offer boosted existing stakes. Shopify, for instance, has now invested more than $350 million in Stripe over a number of transactions, a person close to Shopify said. Shopify is one of Stripe’s largest payment-processing customers, and starting this year Shopify rolled out bank accounts and debit cards to its merchants through a Stripe program.</p><p><blockquote>Stripe 要约收购的许多大型参与者都增加了现有的股份。一位接近 Shopify 的人士表示,例如,Shopify 现已在多笔交易中向 Stripe 投资了超过 3.5 亿美元。Shopify 是 Stripe 最大的支付处理客户之一,从今年开始,Shopify 通过 Stripe 计划向其商户推出了银行账户和借记卡。</blockquote></p><p> The tender offer should relieve some pressure that the company faced from employees and investors to go public sooner rather than later. Stripe has been laying the groundwork for an initial public offering that it could pursue in late 2021 or early 2022, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.</p><p><blockquote>要约收购应该会缓解该公司面临的来自员工和投资者的一些压力,要求其尽快上市。据《华尔街日报》此前报道,Stripe 一直在为可能在 2021 年底或 2022 年初进行的首次公开募股奠定基础。</blockquote></p><p> Stock options at many startups, including Stripe, often expire 10 years after they are granted. Employees who joined the firm shortly after its founding, which was around 2010, have worried that some of their options would expire before an IPO.</p><p><blockquote>包括 Stripe 在内的许多初创公司的股票期权通常在授予 10 年后到期。该公司于 2010 年左右成立后不久加入的员工担心他们的一些期权会在 IPO 之前到期。</blockquote></p><p> Stripe has discouraged employees from selling shares in private transactions that it didn’t arrange, while the ones it did arrange mostly restricted former employees from participating and limited how much current employees could sell, people familiar with the company said.</p><p><blockquote>熟悉该公司的人士说,Stripe 不鼓励员工在其没有安排的私募交易中出售股票,而其安排的私募交易大多限制前员工参与,并限制现任员工的出售数量。</blockquote></p><p> Those restrictions were lifted for the new tender offer, the people said. But that doesn’t mean every employee was able to take part. A few years ago, Stripe switched its stock-based compensation plans to restricted stock units that don’t vest until a public listing, the people said. 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Bids from those investors exceeded $4 billion, some of the people said.</p><p><blockquote>据知情人士透露,这家处理电子商务业务支付的公司最近为投资者提供了从现有股东(包括现任和前任 Stripe 员工)手中收购该公司大量股份的机会。一些知情人士说,这些投资者的出价超过了40亿美元。</blockquote></p><p> But only about $1 billion of those bids were filled, one of the people said, suggesting that many current Stripe shareholders believe their stock has a long way to climb. Among the largest buyers were mutual-fund giant Capital Group Cos., venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital, e-commerce company Shopify Inc. and buyout firm Silver Lake, some of the people said.</p><p><blockquote>但其中一位知情人士表示,这些出价中只有约 10 亿美元被完成,这表明许多目前的 Stripe 股东认为他们的股价还有很长的路要走。一些知情人士称,最大的买家包括共同基金巨头资本集团公司、风险投资公司红杉资本、电子商务公司Shopify Inc.和收购公司Silver Lake。</blockquote></p><p> Silicon Valley is awash with investors looking for new places to park their money, partly because low interest rates have made some traditional investments unappealing. Stripe, in particular, has garnered interest because it has been turbocharged by the coronavirus-fueled boom in online shopping. After a fundraising round in March, it became the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley, valued at $95 billion.</p><p><blockquote>硅谷挤满了寻找新地方存放资金的投资者,部分原因是低利率使得一些传统投资失去了吸引力。Stripe 尤其引起了人们的兴趣,因为冠状病毒引发的在线购物热潮推动了它的发展。在3月份的一轮融资后,它成为硅谷最有价值的私营公司,估值为950亿美元。</blockquote></p><p> The tender offer, which settled last month, was done at a price around where Stripe sold shares in March, some of the people said.</p><p><blockquote>一些知情人士表示,上个月结算的要约收购价格与 Stripe 三月份出售股票的价格大致相同。</blockquote></p><p> Tender offers have become a popular way for startup investors to amass larger holdings outside of more traditional fundraisings. SoftBank Group Corp., for example, acquired nearly $7 billion of shares in Uber Technologies Inc. in a 2017 tender offer, when Uber was still a private company.</p><p><blockquote>要约收购已成为初创投资者在传统融资之外积累更多股份的一种流行方式。例如,软银集团公司在2017年的要约收购中收购了优步科技公司近70亿美元的股票,当时优步还是一家私营公司。</blockquote></p><p> Many of the large participants in Stripe’s tender offer boosted existing stakes. Shopify, for instance, has now invested more than $350 million in Stripe over a number of transactions, a person close to Shopify said. Shopify is one of Stripe’s largest payment-processing customers, and starting this year Shopify rolled out bank accounts and debit cards to its merchants through a Stripe program.</p><p><blockquote>Stripe 要约收购的许多大型参与者都增加了现有的股份。一位接近 Shopify 的人士表示,例如,Shopify 现已在多笔交易中向 Stripe 投资了超过 3.5 亿美元。Shopify 是 Stripe 最大的支付处理客户之一,从今年开始,Shopify 通过 Stripe 计划向其商户推出了银行账户和借记卡。</blockquote></p><p> The tender offer should relieve some pressure that the company faced from employees and investors to go public sooner rather than later. Stripe has been laying the groundwork for an initial public offering that it could pursue in late 2021 or early 2022, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.</p><p><blockquote>要约收购应该会缓解该公司面临的来自员工和投资者的一些压力,要求其尽快上市。据《华尔街日报》此前报道,Stripe 一直在为可能在 2021 年底或 2022 年初进行的首次公开募股奠定基础。</blockquote></p><p> Stock options at many startups, including Stripe, often expire 10 years after they are granted. Employees who joined the firm shortly after its founding, which was around 2010, have worried that some of their options would expire before an IPO.</p><p><blockquote>包括 Stripe 在内的许多初创公司的股票期权通常在授予 10 年后到期。该公司于 2010 年左右成立后不久加入的员工担心他们的一些期权会在 IPO 之前到期。</blockquote></p><p> Stripe has discouraged employees from selling shares in private transactions that it didn’t arrange, while the ones it did arrange mostly restricted former employees from participating and limited how much current employees could sell, people familiar with the company said.</p><p><blockquote>熟悉该公司的人士说,Stripe 不鼓励员工在其没有安排的私募交易中出售股票,而其安排的私募交易大多限制前员工参与,并限制现任员工的出售数量。</blockquote></p><p> Those restrictions were lifted for the new tender offer, the people said. But that doesn’t mean every employee was able to take part. A few years ago, Stripe switched its stock-based compensation plans to restricted stock units that don’t vest until a public listing, the people said. Only stock that has vested could be tendered in the offer, so more recent employees were largely left out.</p><p><blockquote>知情人士称,新的要约收购取消了这些限制。但这并不意味着每个员工都能参加。知情人士说,几年前,Stripe 将其股票薪酬计划改为限制性股票单位,这些股票单位在公开上市前不会归属。只有已归属的股票才能在要约中投标,因此最近的员工基本上被排除在外。</blockquote></p><p></p>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n<p> 来源:<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-clamor-for-a-bigger-piece-of-payments-company-stripe-11623668400?mod=hp_lista_pos3\">The Wall Street Journal</a></p>\n<p>为提升您的阅读体验,我们对本页面进行了排版优化</p>\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"SHOP":"Shopify Inc"},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-clamor-for-a-bigger-piece-of-payments-company-stripe-11623668400?mod=hp_lista_pos3","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1188727129","content_text":"Shopify, Sequoia Capital and others recently bought about $1 billion of shares in fintech Stripe, which could go public late this year or next\nStripe Inc. became the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley after a fundraising round in March.\nStripe Inc. has yet to go public, but investors are still craving a piece of it.\nThe company, which processes payments for e-commerce businesses, recently offered investors the chance to acquire sizable stakes in the company from existing shareholders, including current and former Stripe employees, according to people familiar with the transaction. Bids from those investors exceeded $4 billion, some of the people said.\nBut only about $1 billion of those bids were filled, one of the people said, suggesting that many current Stripe shareholders believe their stock has a long way to climb. Among the largest buyers were mutual-fund giant Capital Group Cos., venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital, e-commerce company Shopify Inc. and buyout firm Silver Lake, some of the people said.\nSilicon Valley is awash with investors looking for new places to park their money, partly because low interest rates have made some traditional investments unappealing. Stripe, in particular, has garnered interest because it has been turbocharged by the coronavirus-fueled boom in online shopping. 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