Stripe is a multi-billion dollar company and will likely have one of the biggest IPOs ever within 1-2 years. $200M is a bargain price to acquire the market leader in an emerging market like Nigeria.
Maybe the winners aren't willing to sell early/cheap.
Should Stripe be investing in seed/Round A start-ups? Having Stripe as a resource could be big -- funding, advice, and potentially infrastructure.
And that’s what they did when the led Paystack’s $8m series A funding 2 years ago when they were almost 3 years old.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/28/paystack-with-ambitions-to...