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I talked to one of my friends in M&A @ one of the top tech companies the other day. I was surprised to hear that their target is a 55% success rate for compani
by joshfraser 14y ago
I talked to one of my friends in M&A @ one of the top tech companies the other day. I was surprised to hear that their target is a 55% success rate for companies they acquire. They want it to be slightly better than a coin toss, but not so high that they over-think any deals. Their logic is that it's okay to have 50 failed deals, as long as they're the guys who find the next YouTube/Hotmail/PayPal.
- PakG1 14y agoThat's interesting. I bet that companies require acquihires to have a higher percentage of success (where I presume success here means the team staying, since the product is often shut down in acquihires). I wonder what M&A people would think would be a good percentage for acquihires.