Frank Quattrone

8 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 1, 2024 by Frank Quattrone · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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2026 1 mention in 1 episode

Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention · from 1:15:59
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2019 3 mentions in 1 episode

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Mar 1, 2024

Assertion Supported

Frank Quattrone: Tech M&A closing timelines have stretched up to 24 months

“And before it was almost unheard of for deals to take more than six, nine months. Now it's 12 months and then it's 18 months. And now sometimes, you know, it's 24 months, you know, to predict what's going to happen.”

Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 38:42 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Mar 1, 2024 positive

Assertion Supported

Qatalyst's Best M&A Year Was 2021 With Zero Face-to-Face Meetings

“The best year we've ever had in any of my businesses in M&A was 2021, where by the way, not a single one of us saw any of our colleagues face to face or a single client face to face. Was our single best year in history.”

Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 17:13 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Mar 1, 2024

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Frank Quattrone: 90% of M&A deals die after initiation

“Honestly, the answer is probably a lot higher than people think, but 90% of deals probably die once they get started.”

Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 36:10 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Mar 1, 2024

Assertion Supported

Quattrone: 90% of Companies Now Achieve Liquidity via M&A, Not IPOs

“Only 10% of companies go public. Like back in the eighties and nineties of 50%, but since 2050%, no, 90% of companies get liquidity through mergers.”

Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 26:36 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Mar 1, 2024 positive

Assertion Supported

Quattrone: Tech M&A Advisory Firm Qatalyst Still Closes 80%-90% of Deals

“And so we're not having trouble getting 80% or 90% of our deals done, it's really only 10%”

Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 21:15 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Mar 1, 2024

Disclosure

Quattrone: 70-75% of Qatalyst M&A Deals Stem From Inbound Offers

“Maybe, I don't know, 70%, 75% of the time we react to a client who said, we've just gotten an offer from so-and-so. We think others may be interested. We'd like you to run a process.”

Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 33:00 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Mar 1, 2024

Insight

Quattrone: M&A Freezes After Market Crashes Due to Valuation Misalignment

“The worst M&A years we've had ironically are when there's been a market crash and you'd think that that would be the time that buyers really step up and go on a bargain basement hunting expedition. But it's similarly a time when Sellers still think that they'r…”

Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 18:25 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Mar 1, 2024 positive

Insight

Quattrone: Tech companies must eventually IPO for M&A currency and public debt

“And so, yes, they wanted to wait longer, but at some point employees need liquidity. Yes, you can get it through privately held deals, but and also they need a currency for acquisitions. That's a lot of times what really drives the company to ultimately face t…”

Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 24:27 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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