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22 Aug 2016 Acquired Special: An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe

“As I said, I think one of the fun things about software and internet is it gives a lot of clay for all of us to play with.”

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22 Aug 2016
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Acquired

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…David is doing God’s work. Let’s be clear. Yeah, exactly. The last would be Originals by Adam Grant. That was just sort of focusing in on creativity and sort of what are the hallmarks of people and how do they go about that and how to be original and who are the originals and stuff. As I said, I think one of the fun things about software and internet is it gives a lot of clay for all of us to play with. You can absolutely be an original if you want to go be. So those three have been a lot of fun in the last probably even 2 or 3 weeks I was churning through all of them. That’s awesome. The Originals, I hadn’t heard of that. I have to add it to my list. I’ll go next real quick because it picks up on a couple of those themes from a disparate angle. We started the episode on a sports topic, so I can’t not end it on one given that it's the Olympics right now. My Carve Out is if you haven’t seen, everybody’s got to go watch Simone Biles, the woman’s gymnast. This girl is like the most dominant athlete in her sport I think I have ever seen. She makes Michael Jordan look like he’s in the D league, you know, would be the epic comparison. She now just won the individual gold medal in the Olympics by an enormous margin.…

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