Shaan Puri: Twitch leadership never asked for competitor intel post-acquisition
Shaan Puri · MFM #168 - How to Reverse Engineer Businesses, The Indonesian King of Coal & the Story of Adidas · Apr 7, 2021 · at 24:46
Shaan Puri discusses selling his company Bebo to Twitch (Amazon) and his surprise that leadership never probed him for competitor roadmaps.
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“When we got acquired, we had talked to five other companies while we got acquired. And for each of them, they're laying out their map, you know, how, what's their strategy, how they're going to win, how we fit into that strategy, you know, where they're strong, where they're weak, what the numbers are. So when we finally got acquired, I was, I walked in and I was sort of like, guys, Congratulations. You got me. You got my team. You got our code base, but you also got a little bit of Intel. No, they were like, I talked to, they had no interest. I didn't even say anything, but I was like, nobody asked me anything.”
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