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tech acquirers

3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 15, 2018 by Emilie Choi · across every show →

Everything said about tech acquirers, oldest first

Jan 15, 2018
Insight
Choi: Matching company engineer retention in M&A signifies top performance
“If you are anywhere close to the overall software engineer retention rate for your company with the acquisitions, you are crushing it.”
Emilie Choi Jan 15, 2018 ▶ 23:28 20VC: LinkedIn's Head of Corp Dev on Why and When Startups Should Start Relationship Building With Corp Dev, What The Structure of M&A Traditionally Looks Like & How To Mitigate The Biggest Risk of M&A, Integration Risk
Jun 22, 2020 negative
Opinion
Wilkinson: Most tech acquirers flip companies within two to four years
“Our focus is on buying wonderful businesses that'll be profitable, and being able to really have them be sustainable and exist in 10 years, whereas most other acquirers have a thesis around slamming them into another company, or they're gonna flip them in two …”
Andrew Wilkinson Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 8:33 20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
Jan 4, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: Tech acquirers will buy adjacent products rather than direct competitors
“There'll be huge appetite for M&A anyone can afford, but people will buy adjacent plays rather than directly competitive plays at scale.”
Jason Lemkin Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 1:02:16 Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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