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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to TLDR on Thu Jul 16 07:42:44 2026
    TLDR wrote to All <=-

    Stripe and Advent International have made a joint takeover bid for
    PayPal. They proposed paying $60.50 a share for PayPal in a deal that values

    That's another one of those timing stories. When Stripe first came out,
    we were wondering why the hell PayPal didn't buy them. Instead, PayPal
    came out with their own card reader and service, which was horrible. It
    had some little flaps that came down to steady the device, which broke.
    It had the PayPal log on it.

    When Apple moved the headphone jack to the bottom of the phone, the logo
    was on the back side of the phone and it didn't sit right.

    Back then, they would have spent less if they'd just bought Stripe.

    I should have sold my PayPal stock when it hit $160 back in the day...




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