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> When a company uses acquisition as a strategy to develop features, it is stagnating. That’s a gross over-simplification. M&A has been the modern way to grow
by cnnlives733 1y ago
> When a company uses acquisition as a strategy to develop features, it is stagnating.
That’s a gross over-simplification. M&A has been the modern way to grow for decades.
- notepad0x90 1y agoFor startups? OpenAI hasn't been public for long enough to no longer be considered a startup.
- nedflanders2 1y agoM&A is a growth lever for startups, especially in a competitive market. Stripe bought Paystack. Databricks acquired Tecton, Neon, BladeBridge, Tabular, Arcion, MosaicML. Wiz bought Dazz, Gem Security, and Raftt. ServiceNow acquired Moveworks. Snowflake purchased Crunchy Data. CoreWeave agreed to buy Weights & Biases. Ripple acquired GTreasury. AlphaSense purchased Tegus. etc. etc.
- antonvs 1y agoAcquisition is a common use of VC funding by startups. It perfectly fits the VC agenda which is to use funding to secure a competitive, ideally leading, position in the market.