Stripe just offered $53B for PayPal — a company worth $360B in 2021. About 15 cents on the dollar. And Stripe, the upst…
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Stripe just offered $53B for PayPal — a company worth $360B in 2021. About 15 cents on the dollar. And Stripe, the upstart, is now valued at nearly 3x the giant it’s buying. PayPal got picked apart from every side: Apple and Google Pay took the consumer, Stripe took the merchants, Klarna took BNPL. Venmo became a verb and never got monetized. The PayPal Mafia left and built Tesla, SpaceX, LinkedIn, Palantir. What they left behind got slow. Founders: this is your answer to “why can’t the…
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