Travis Hoium
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This is one that I've very much struggled to get behind myself.
I think there's going to be interest for buyers.
I do think, maybe to a certain extent, PayPal's board is looking for a buyer, but that buyer is going to be PayPal.
Alex Chris was not shown the door as CEO because his strategy wasn't working quickly enough.
But the decision to replace him with Enrique Loris, I don't think this is about innovation.
They've brought in a CEO from a commodity hardware business, a price-taker business at HP.
And if there's a part of PayPal's business that's at risk, it's not really the innovative part of it.
price-taking the non-branded payments business.
If we really look at what Loris brings to the table, it's that focus on efficiency and also being a buyback machine.
During his tenure as CEO at HP, they brought back 37% of shares.
PayPal is a buyback monster already.
They bought back about 20% of shares over that same period, but a lot less.