Mergers

“An industry that's changing quickly, as this one is, we're far better off if the individual studios can actually bring their own view to it and move quickly and not become ponderous because we've merged everything together.”

“Generally speaking, the administration has not been successful in those challenges.”

“What I said in the context of tech is that we should focus on the anti-competitive tactics and stop those rather than blocking all mergers.”

“I think the mergers that you're seeing in Australia are a natural driver of innovation. You're bringing these big teams together, smushing them and seeing what are the best practices that emerged.”

“And in industry after industry, what's happened is that the DOJ and the FTC over the years, the level at which they will scrutinize mergers has sort of gone up and up. And then effectively, they've blocked almost no mergers and scrutinized almost no mergers.”

“There's extensive evidence that mergers, particularly under six players, lead to higher prices.”

“There are times when a split actually can increase total value. Outside of blockchain lands, one of the examples of this is that there's been some fairly decent amount of research, like you, if you read some of the behavioral economists, so condiment and so fo…”

“Most of these mergers fail because the go-to-market is muddled and the sales organization is, is muddled after the merger, you know, after the merger happens.”

“Is what, when you dig deep, what normally kills most mergers, and most synergy in mergers, is they, ah, they didn't, ah, they actually, they had what was called organizational silence.”