This style of blogging is most beautiful. An observation accompanied by a why. There’s much to note about a potential ‘thesis’ this author could have penned, bu

This style of blogging is most beautiful. An observation accompanied by a why. There’s much to note about a potential ‘thesis’ this author could have penned, but instead left us to fill in the gaps. We need more content like this. To answer the call, I’d agree, it is perplexing that we celebrate the acquisition when often times the event leads to an undesired change to the underlining product or service. In finance, it was traditionally taught that mergers/acquisitions are rarely successful in a managerial and cultural sense… so the lesson that it does end up being net negative to the organizations does seem consistent across domains. It may be interesting to look at different types of acquisitions as well, maybe those without venture funding and those with, to see if there is a ‘quality’ that differs the two