Seibert: Acquired founders should negotiate 6-to-9-month reporting commitments
Jeff Seibert · 20 VC FF 032: Jeff Seibert on Lessons From Being Acquired By Twitter & Box and Now Leading Twitter's Consumer Product · Jan 29, 2016 · at 21:25
Jeff Seibert, former co-founder of Crashlytics and Senior Director of Product at Twitter, reflects on post-acquisition integration pitfalls following Twitter's acquisition of Crashlytics.
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“What I would have done in retrospect is sought some commitment to continue to report to that person for X period of time. I don't think it's fair or actually good to say, Hey, I want to indefinitely report to this person. You want to move around as the company changes structure. But for us, it was very short term. It was sort of a month in that Twitter happened to do a reorg and we just got unlucky. And so I would have sought some sort of maybe six or nine month commitment to stay at that level so that we could really Integrate into the company, understand what was going on, and then identify the best place to report into.”
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