Sridhar: M&A earnout handcuffs create a toxic post-acquisition company culture
Sravish Sridhar · 849: SaaS: Kinvey Acquired for $50m To Help Frontend Devs Be Backend Devs · Nov 20, 2017 · at 21:56
Kinvey founder Sravish Sridhar reflects on M&A retention strategies following Kinvey's acquisition by Progress Software.
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“You're going to be motivated because you really want to work at the company. It's not tied to some artificial handcuffs, right? Which I think is a wrong culture.”
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