acquisition

“My belief on acquisitions and IPOs for that matter, exits of any kind is that they are not about exiting. The entire point is to become more successful at your mission.”

“Transition from being your own game master to being a player in somebody else's game.”

“I do think the reason that a number of acquisitions fail with other acquirers is taking a one size fits all type of approach.”

“An acquisition is a mix of every emotion, and then the question is, I mean, like literally, like you feel relief, you feel excitement, you feel sadness, you feel loss, like significant loss because you are losing control. Like every emotion under the sun I fel…”

“Companies that usually, like, usually mergers that fall apart or acquisitions that fall apart end up with in a really bad place because companies just typically have checked out by the time the acquisition happens. Figma is thriving. And I think they're thrivi…”

“Things I buy, either they're going to help me 10 X or a hundred X, or they're going to fail spectacularly. It doesn't matter if I paid one or two X at that point in time.”