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When and Why to Merge With a Competitor to Dominate a Market

Max Levchin and Peter Thiel, Paypal

The early merger with the competitor created a unified front that helped convince people that there was a large market with real growth. Though there is no way to tell, it is likely that both companies would have run out of money had they not merged.