Q So what's the difference between enterprise and consumer corporate development?
A This is a bit of a generalization, right? If you, if you look at, ah, the corporate development teams on the enterprise side, and so I'm, I'm talking about Oracle, and Cisco, and VMware, and those kind of companies, they tend to be more M&A execution focused, ah, and, and so you, you hear a lot of times, you know, CorpDev picks up the phone when they want to buy you, and that's the only reason why they call. That's not always true, but it's more true for these enterprise companies. And, you know, the, The, the following idea there is that most, most enterprise companies, uh, have GMs who run businesses, and those GMs are actually the decision makers a lot of times in terms of who, you know, what, what companies to buy, um, and then the corporate development team just executes the transaction. I think that's a bit different, uh, James, from, from what happens on the, uh, consumer side.
AI assessment note: “I think that's a bit different, uh, James, from, from what happens on the, uh, consumer side.”