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Dave Sobota

4 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 15, 2019 by Dave Sobota · across every show →

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Apr 15, 2019 bullish
Assertion Supported
Google paid $1.1 billion for pre-revenue Waze and succeeded
“For example, if you look at a ways where we spent 1.1 billion dollars to buy them, that's been a tremendously successful deal for us. But at the time they had almost no revenue.”
Dave Sobota Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 7:52 20VC: So You Want To Be Acquired? Instacart VP of Corp Dev, Dave Sobota on His Biggest Lessons From 10 Years in Google's M&A Team Working on The Acquisitions of Motorola, Waze & Android
Apr 15, 2019 positive
Insight
Successful M&A deals never look expensive in hindsight
“I completely agree with Peter. If you do a good M&A deal, no one's ever looked back and said, how much do we pay? It's just smiles and congratulations.”
Dave Sobota Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 7:32 20VC: So You Want To Be Acquired? Instacart VP of Corp Dev, Dave Sobota on His Biggest Lessons From 10 Years in Google's M&A Team Working on The Acquisitions of Motorola, Waze & Android
Apr 15, 2019
Insight
Founders should sell if acquirers pay expected future value today
“The general rule of thumb is that if someone is going to pay you today what you think you're reasonably going to be worth well into the future, then sell now.”
Dave Sobota Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 8:47 20VC: So You Want To Be Acquired? Instacart VP of Corp Dev, Dave Sobota on His Biggest Lessons From 10 Years in Google's M&A Team Working on The Acquisitions of Motorola, Waze & Android
Apr 15, 2019 positive
Insight
Active internal sponsors are crucial for post-merger integration success
“The single most important element we found for a successful integration is that we have an engaged deal sponsor from the Google side stay intimately involved with the company after closing until it's fully integrated.”
Dave Sobota Apr 15, 2019 ▶ 20:16 20VC: So You Want To Be Acquired? Instacart VP of Corp Dev, Dave Sobota on His Biggest Lessons From 10 Years in Google's M&A Team Working on The Acquisitions of Motorola, Waze & Android
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