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Recession is coming - Mergers and Acquisitions
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This podcast will walk you through my M&A experiences - how to survive them, take advantage of them, learn the signals and understand how to stay calm
What happens in a Merger and Acquisition
- Been part of 6 major acquisitions
- JetForm Merger to Adobe
- Adobe Merger with Macromedia
- Adobe Merger with CPQDay
- Adobe Merger with Omniture
- Involves acquired by Oracle
- Oracle pulls in Vitrue and Collective Intellect
- Elastic - purchase endgame
- Snowflake - Not yet, but soon
- How did they work
- Adobe saves JetForm / Accelio
- Put me in charge - merge the NYC office
- Pay off the Unions
- tried to sell it like a box of software
- Attitude! On all fronts
- Why - we had enterprise experience
- Sales Workflows are so different
- Frustrations
- Elimination time
- Positives - My Dream Job
- Security - Large Company
Come visit us at SE Worklife http://www.seworklife.com - I expect all types of responses and requests from this community. We have one book out of three book series - grab a copy and get free access to my SE Journey. Our team is a collective of the brightest and most experienced SE leaders across world-class organizations like Adobe, Google, Oracle, Elastic Search, Snowflake , Mongo DB , Databricks and a ton of others out there.
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