Levy-Garboua: Stagnant or declining SaaS targets pose severe hidden failure risk
Pascal Levy-Garboua · Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Pascal Levy-Garboua, CEO of Noosa Labs · Jul 3, 2024 · at 10:24
Pascal Levy-Garboua, CEO of Noosa Labs, explains why his firm requires acquisition targets to demonstrate active growth rather than flat or declining revenue.
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“What is hard is when the business is not growing anymore or declining, despite having a lot of inbound or being very profitable, because you don't know why, what is broken and how, and you don't know how much time you'll have until the thing is immediately broken.”
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