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Changing the basis of competition in the marketplace from price to convenience (i.e., ease of use) is exactly what disruptive innovation is. Not all disruptive innovations are low end.

Stripe is actually more like a new market disruption because it is bringing in non-consumers who might not have even been able to setup payment processing without their solution. The same is true of Gumroad, or Shopify.



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