Altman: Building in-house beats M&A for multi-product expansion
Jack Altman · From $5M to $100M: How to Scale a Multi-Product Startup with Lattice CEO Jack Altman · Sep 29, 2023 · at 19:24
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Jack Altman, CEO of Lattice, analyzes the build-versus-buy decision for startups expanding into multi-product architectures.
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“I think that the vast majority of the time building is better than buying. I think buying companies, particularly when you're small, comes with a huge amount of overhead that is hard to foresee. You have to integrate the team, the culture, the product. You're not going to have the integrations. It's generally speaking going to be more expensive than if you just build it in house. It's going to be a huge distraction to your leadership team relative to building it in house.”
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