Peter Shalek was the co-founder and CEO of Joyable, a leading digital behavioral health company that raised $15m before being acquired by AbleTo in 2019. Before Joyable, Pete invested in and advised health tech companies. Pete graduated from Columbia with a bachelors in Mathematics and earned his MBA from Stanford. He now leads AbleTo's product str…

Joseph Tou is Vice President, Corporate Development at Sony Corporation of America and Managing Director of Sony Innovation Fund where he primarily leads U.S. technology M&A and investment activity as well as venture investments. Prior to Sony, Joe was a senior investment professional at Bertram Capital and Mavent Partners and semiconductor equity …

Karim Atiyeh shares the story behind selling Paribus to Capital One after two years of rapid growth, going through YCombinator, and raising from top Silicon Valley VCs, including General Catalyst and Greylock. TechCrunch Story: https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/06/capital-one-acquires-online-price-tracker-paribus/ You can follow Karim on Twitter: @kar…

In early 2019, Jabra/GN Group announced its $125M acquisition of Altia Systems, an AI conferencing camera for huddle rooms. In this episode, we talk with Altia System's co-founder and CEO, Aurangzeb Khan. He helped grow Altia Systems’ unique PanaCast multi-camera array real-time, immersive intelligent vision system products to serve more than 1,600…

In this episode, we dive into the acquisition of Cue by Apple (a reported $40M+ deal). Daniel Gross joins us to share his experiences building the company, the equity of opportunity, and his new venture: Pioneer. (https://pioneer.app) Daniel Gross (@danielgross) is an entrepreneur and investor, born in Israel. When he was 18, he was accepted into Y…

In November 2016, Oracle announced that it would acquire Dyn, the leading cloud-based Internet Performance and DNS provider. It's estimated that Oracle paid somewhere between $600 million and $700 million in the acquisition. Dyn monitors, controls, and optimizes Internet applications and cloud services to deliver faster access, reduced page load ti…

The ‘How I Sold This’ podcast takes you inside the world of startup acquisitions and liquidations, featuring the stories told from entrepreneurs who founded, built and exited their startup. We dive into the strategies that led to both success and failure at exit, and the practical insights that these founders have learned in the process. We launch …