🚨 $PYPL CRASHES 12% – AND IT’S 100% SELF-INFLICTED.
Stripe & Advent just WALKED AWAY from a $50 BILLION buyout offer – one of the biggest LBOs in history – after PayPal got greedy and rejected the initial bid, expecting a richer counteroffer that NEVER came.
Now the stock is tanking, retail is panicking, and the board is left holding the bag on a deal that would’ve given shareholders a massive premium. Instead? Hubris meets reality.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth Wall Street won’t tell you:
👉 PayPal isn’t a growth story anymore – it’s a legacy fintech bleeding market share to Stripe, Block, and even Apple Pay.
👉 This rejection wasn’t “confidence” – it was miscalculation. And the market just punished them for it.
So I’ll ask you straight:
Was PayPal right to hold out, or did they just torch $6B+ in market cap for nothing?
And more importantly – who’s really to blame here: the board, the CEO, or the bankers who greenlit this ego play?
Drop your take below. I dare you to defend this move. 👇
#FintechFail #PayPalPanic #EgoOverEquity
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