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by rehabindian 4387 days ago
|If Facebook/Whatsapp can payment-enable messaging and do it at a lower cost, PayPal's raison d'etre starts looking pretty questionable.

PayPal's raison d'etre is not in Peer to Peer money exchange. Its more on strong merchant integrations, partnerships, and relationships. In fact PayPal draws a small loss on p2p products. If you want to compete with PayPal its through strong merchant integrations which many startups have not succeeded in doing. When braintree made inroads into a segment of b2b products, PayPal acquired Braintree.

P2P is more or less a adoption hack/growth hack for a payments company. Merchant integrations and risk models are where its at.