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When you say slow embrace, do you mean the acquisition happened slowly and with transparency or the acquirer handled it well? This is a problem I’d love to have
by werber 7y ago
When you say slow embrace, do you mean the acquisition happened slowly and with transparency or the acquirer handled it well? This is a problem I’d love to have to deal with tbh
- 0xFACEFEED 7y agoPost-acquisition example: Acquirer has a VP that's pushing the deal. VP makes promises to make the deal seem as attractive as possible (eg: X will improve in Y time). New team is pressured to move quickly. New team uses the honeymoon period to flex all of their political capital. Existing teams get frustrated as their work is de-prioritized/marginalized. Culture clashes happen if new team isn't silo'd from existing teams. And so on...