Stripe’s Acquisition Pace Has Accelerated In The Past Five Years, But Nothing Comes Close To Its Reported $53B PayPal Bet
THE SO WHAT
A reported $53B move on PayPal would be Stripe trying to consolidate consumer and merchant rails into a single operating layer for online payments. Fintech founders should assume the bar for independent scale just went up—niches, geography, or deeply vertical workflows become the safer ground.
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