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Taneja: Stripe will become a $1 trillion company in 10 years
“I think Stripe's gonna be a trillion dollar company. He's gotta give it 10 years, you know, so I'm, we're, it's a compounding business that, you know, Patrick and John always say infrastructure is hard, but it also compounds, and they're sort of steadily just …”
Lemkin: >51% chance OpenRouter drives 20-30% of Stripe's revenue in 5 years
“I think it'll be like the scale acquisition. It will be the start of something that gets bigger, whether this brand exists or whether even this product exists five years. I don't even think this product will exist in five years, but I think it will be, I think…”
Lemkin: Stripe-PayPal Acquisition Premium Will Land at Around 35%
“So it's probably just a dance from 28 to 35. And then it gets parked with advent to while they figure out antitrust and capital issues.”
Lemkin: PayPal's Board Will Ultimately Accept Stripe's Acquisition Offer
“The board rejected it, right? And the fact that the board rejected it means to me that they're going to accept it.”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic will likely IPO in 2026, but Stripe will not
“I think Stripe, least likely, take it off the table. My gut would be Antropic gets it done.”
O'Driscoll: Four or more venture exits will top $65B in 5-7 years
“If there's not four exits, Above sixty five billion in the next five or seven years, then the people who bought Stripe, SpaceX, Databricks, OpenAI and Antropic are screwed. So I don't think they're screwed. So I think there's going to be, this trend is going t…”
Stebbings predicts Stripe will remain private for another four years
“I think Stripe will still be private in four years time.”
O'Driscoll: Stripe will succeed in its IPO regardless of listing structure
“The very biggest, when Stripe finally goes public, they can do whatever they want. They can do a direct listing and not raise any primary capital. They could do the Google type option, and no matter what, it'll all be fine.”