PayPal
A digital payments platform that also offers cryptocurrency services including a stablecoin.
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How PayPal compares
8 creators weighed in
Stripe
Direct rival
online payments for businesses
PayPal works in almost every country; Ali uses it as a fallback when Stripe is not available in your region.
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PayPal works in almost every country; Ali uses it as a fallback when Stripe is not available in your region.
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"If you are not in one of these countries, then Stripe is not yet accepted in your payment region, and you can probably sign up to PayPal, which is accepted in like almost every country on Earth."
Positioned as secondary fallback to Stripe
"Stripe and PayPal no more it would seem. Deal is off. I think it's as simple as price."
Discussed in context of failed acquisition talks with Stripe
"Stripe and the private equity fund Advent are jointly offering to acquire PayPal for about 60 bucks a share. PayPal — 439 million consumer accounts."
Compared to Stripe — PayPal has the consumer side, Stripe has the merchant side
"Stripe is offered to buy PayPal. PayPal is a sprawling legacy fintech with 25,000 employees, decades of technical debt."
Being compared to Stripe as a potential acquisition target
"PayPal's share price peaked above 300 back in the 2021-2022 era and they're going to go private maybe for 16 and a half bucks a share. Kind of a shocking decline in worth."
Compared to Stripe as a more dynamic private company
online marketplace for sellers
PayPal started as a small tool for eBay sellers, then grew. Shaan says it won by focusing on that niche instead of going big from the start.
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PayPal started as a small tool for eBay sellers, then grew. Shaan says it won by focusing on that niche instead of going big from the start.
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"Here was PayPal, this little tool for eBay sellers — it's like the niche within the niche. And of course now PayPal can do a lot more than it did when it started, but it went after that very small market initially."
Compared to Elon's original X.com vision (full banking platform) — PayPal succeeded by focusing on the small eBay seller niche instead
"They were focused on all um you know, what we considered like the sexier form of commerce, the e-commerce, you know, where people are buying stuff on the internet"
PayPal focused on e-commerce while Shift4 focused on in-person transactions; PayPal had to sell to eBay while Shift4 stayed independent
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PayPal processes similar payment volume to Stripe but is valued at roughly 1/3 of Stripe's market cap.
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PayPal processes similar payment volume to Stripe but is valued at roughly 1/3 of Stripe's market cap.
"Ever since the PayPal mafia walked out, it's been just a revolving door of executives and is a real mess — they've dissipated their opportunity."
Being acquired by Stripe; processes similar payment volume to Stripe but valued at roughly 1/3 of Stripe's market cap
"eBay is notorious for having bought and then sold a number of big businesses. They bought PayPal and then later spun it out and divested."
Mentioned alongside Skype and StubHub as businesses eBay acquired and later sold
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"Every day I would tell the PayPal to move money over to the TD student bank account."
More from Greg LaVecchia →"Then you have PayPal, which has got over 400 million accounts... But they have on the order of 30 million merchants."
More from Terry Angelos →"PayPal and Shopify, they don't care. Like, they make money as long as money flows."
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"Of course, Stripe and PayPal lean into this. It benefits them."
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"PayPal did it. They found whatever his name is out on his Montana ranch to come back in and run PayPal."
"Here was PayPal, this little tool for eBay sellers — it's like the niche within the niche. And of course now PayPal can do a lot more than it did when it started, but it went after that very small market initially."
More from Shaan Puri →"PayPal was a very friendly name. It was the friend that helps you pay."
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"The big innovation of PayPal was what if we don't care about anonymity at all. In fact, people don't. They just need to pay for their coffees or their online purchases."
More from Max Levchin →"Stripe and PayPal no more it would seem. Deal is off. I think it's as simple as price."
More from Harry Stebbings →+1 more mention from Harry
"They need money to buy PayPal. They need money to buy what was it — Open Router."
"At the same time, they're talking about a PayPal acquisition, which is very much — we own this space already, let's buy these guys, fold them into what we already have, and just make a ton of money consolidating."
More from Rory O'Driscoll →
"Before we started Palantir, the thing we'd learned how to do was stop the fraud service at PayPal. The Chinese and Russian mafia were stealing all of our money and made our competitors go bankrupt. I was just an intern back then, and when we were ..."
More from Joe Lonsdale →+2 more mentions from Joe
"At PayPal we had to stop the Chinese and Russian mafia from stealing all of our money. We got to know all the guys who were helping us arrest the b..."
"The DNA of Palantir came out of the anti-fraud work at PayPal, right? The Chinese and Russian mafia were stealing massive amounts of money from Pay..."
"Stripe and the private equity fund Advent are jointly offering to acquire PayPal for about 60 bucks a share. PayPal — 439 million consumer accounts."
More from Jason Calacanis →
"Stripe is offered to buy PayPal. PayPal is a sprawling legacy fintech with 25,000 employees, decades of technical debt."
More from John Coogan →"Ever since the PayPal mafia walked out, it's been just a revolving door of executives and is a real mess — they've dissipated their opportunity."
"PayPal's share price peaked above 300 back in the 2021-2022 era and they're going to go private maybe for 16 and a half bucks a share. Kind of a shocking decline in worth."
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"PayPal, my favorite way to settle up. They had a great lounge on site at the summit where everybody got to hang out and get those beautiful embossed luggage tags, and they hosted the payments and fintech dinner which was a huge hit."
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