Tech: PayPal + Pinterest = PayPin? PinPal?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We talk about the rumor of the week -- Paypal's late stage talks to acquire Pinterest.
The move would be a reach outside the payment company's core competency, but could unlock better monetization opportunities for Pinterest and give PayPal some digital real estate to explore marketplace and commerce activity.
We're shareholders of both and talk about why the deal makes sense, why it might not make sense, and what to keep in mind if a company you own is getting bought.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyple. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today |
| 0:16.0 | we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. Wild Card Wednesday. |
| 0:20.4 | And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. |
| 0:23.7 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:26.7 | It's Friday, October 22nd, and we're talking Pinterest and PayPal. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm your host, Dylan Lewis, and I'm joined by Fool.com's absurd appraiser of accidental acquisitions. |
| 0:35.7 | Brian for Roldy. |
| 0:37.3 | Brian, what is going on? |
| 0:39.1 | Dylan, we got visited by not the news fairy this week, but by the rumor fairy fairy this week and that's what this show is about. |
| 0:45.0 | I like to think of them as like cousins the news fairy and the rumor fairy one slightly more reputable than the other right? |
| 0:52.0 | That's right and in some cases I... one slightly more reputable than the other, right? |
| 0:53.0 | That's right, and in some cases, given the size of the deal that we're about to discuss, |
| 0:59.0 | more often than not, I found these rumors tend to be true. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, you usually don't get any... I found these rumors tend to be true. |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, you usually don't get any movement on a company that big, |
| 1:06.8 | unless there are some pretty solid reasons |
| 1:08.8 | to back up the rumor. |
| 1:10.2 | Of course, we are talking about the interest that PayPal has the late stage talks the rumored late stage talks that they have to acquire Pinterest and Brian you were one of the first fools to really put Pinterest on, I think, the community's |
| 1:25.1 | radar as an interesting investment. |
| 1:27.1 | It is proven to be a multibagger for people who followed some of those early looks that you gave. |
| 1:32.2 | I know there are also some people, like myself, who have some positions that you gave. I know there are also some people like myself who have some |
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