James Loftus

Chief Financial Officer, Pebl · 1 appearance on the record.

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James Loftus previously served as Global Head of Corporate Development at Square and Managing Partner at PayPal Ventures, where he led a early-stage fintech fund and launched an AI investment strategy. He has executed major M&A and venture initiatives across Andreessen Horowitz, STX Digital, Yahoo, and Google.

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Loftus: Extreme M&A anecdotes distort public perception of corporate development

“I mean, honestly, I think that one of the challenges is, is that the situations that corporate development teams are involved in tend to be sort of very high stress, very, very high emotion. And so sort of people have a lot of stories that bounce around the ma…”

James Loftus Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:16 a16z Podcast | Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev

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Loftus: Consumer corporate development focuses on broader market strategy beyond execution

“Yeah, I think, I mean, on the consumer side, there are plenty of opportunities to be M&A execution focused, but I think within consumer companies, You also see the general corporation looking to the corporate development team to understand the overall strategi…”

James Loftus Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:11 a16z Podcast | Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev

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Loftus: Corporate development provides unique access to multi-department executives

“If you think about a corporate development team, they're doing transactions across the whole company. And so there are very few places within a large organization where you can go to a single point of contact that has access to multiple executives doing differ…”

James Loftus Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:22 a16z Podcast | Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev

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Loftus: Founders should force corporate development to bring product leaders to early meetings

“And I think one thing that you can do as a founder is you can force the corporate development team to be more efficient. If they think that they're going to need to bring in a product person later, Or if they're gonna, if there's other people at the company th…”

James Loftus Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:57 a16z Podcast | Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev	Jan 2, 2019	6m

James Loftus

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