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Sources: Advent and Stripe are no longer pursuing a deal to acquire PayPal; the group offered to pay $60.50/share in July, valuing PayPal at $53B

A consortium of buyout firm Advent and payment processor Stripe has decided to abandon its pursuit of fintech pioneer PayPal Holdings Inc.

Bloomberg

Discussion

  • @davidcrespo @davidcrespo on bluesky
    welp!  no real reason given.  it always seemed to me like an incredible pain in the ass for Stripe to bring upon themselves
  • Marcel van Oost Marcel van Oost on linkedin
    🚨 𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂: Stripe's $53 BILLION pursuit of PayPal is DEAD. …
  • Simon Taylor Simon Taylor on linkedin
    BREAKING: Stripe and Advent have walked away from PayPal.  The $53bn deal is dead.  —  Bloomberg reported overnight that the consortium abandoned its pursuit. …
  • Michele Mattei Michele Mattei on linkedin
    Stripe and Advent end $53 billion pursuit of PayPal  —  Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have ended their $53 billion pursuit of PayPal …
  • @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky
    Stripe is no longer interested in buying PayPal.  —  After buying OpenRouter and seeing Nvidia snap up Hugging Face, maybe they're saving their money for other AI acquisitions?  🤔
  • @quinnypig Corey Quinn on x
    Ugh. Best of luck to Stripe and Advent on getting a refund from Paypal.
  • @mechachurchill Mecha Churchilll on bluesky
    Stripe must have gotten a real scary look at the PayPal infra and ran [embedded post]