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Xero's flexin' with Melio ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ’€โ€”$2.5B deal for that sweet payment sauce! Small biz is shook! ๐Ÿš€ #MoneyMoves

June 25, 2025
4 months ago
Techmeme
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๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ HOLD UP, ACCOUNTING GURUS! Xero just pulled a HUGE power play that'll have you questioning your spreadsheets ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ’ธ! You know that โ€œthis is fineโ€ meme? Well, small businesses everywhere are sweating like they just opened their last tax return cause Xero just dropped a cancel-2023-level acquisition ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ! ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’ฐ In a move thatโ€™s hotter than my laptop after a 12-hour coding session, Xero (the accounting Robin Hood of NZ) is shelling out a whopping $2.5 billion ๐Ÿ’ต๐Ÿ’ต for Melio, a payments platform! Basically, it's like being invited to the hottest party in town, but you realize it's just a 1040 tax form rave. ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œWe wanted to give small businesses something to smile about,โ€ said an anonymous dev at Xero, who definitely didnโ€™t just eat a whole pizza while coding the new features. โ€œLike, who even wants to do accounting, right?โ€ Yeah bro, tell that to my tax software at 11:59 PM on April 15th! Just imagine this acquisition like Drake pointing at the "get paid" button while cringing at every outdated accounting tool! ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿ’€ ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ UNHINGED PREDICTION: In 5 years, accounting software will be run by friendly AIs and holographic frogs that tell you how to dodge taxes. But, like... in a LEGAL way. Stonks? ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿ“ˆ

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