Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B

Re:Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B by mikeryan on Sunday August 01, 2021 @11:08PM (#28032488)

Even in the Release I was shaking my head. They have 100,000 merchants that seems tiny? I could understand buying market share but at some point don’t you think Someone could tell Jack “hey we can probably build this feature for a few bucks less than $1B. Might take a year or so but we can save a few bucks maybe”

I mean at some point don’t you have t

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Re:Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B by humanlion87 on Monday August 02, 2021 @12:05AM (#28032758)

I don't think building the feature/product is the challenge here. Signing up all those merchants and convincing them to on-board is going to be time and resource intensive. That is what they are buying.

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