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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: evaluation
16 Dec 2016 Acquired Special: A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz
“We realized that we were selling ourselves short, our ambition short.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 16 Dec 2016
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Well, jumping back over to the M&A side of the house, one of the theses of this show when we first set out was to figure out what makes acquisitions successful and selfishly so that David and I can really understand how to build companies that will become successfully acquired and will fit into another business or more recently, will actually have a successful IPO process. We realized that we were selling ourselves short, our ambition short. Right, right. In that vein, I’m very curious how on the M&A side of the house at Microsoft do you judge acquisitions and do you decide if this worked out well and we’re glad that we did this 5-10 years later.…
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