Acquisition Related Topics 
SaaStr
JANUARY 12, 2025
The post LinkedIn: The Greatest B2B Acquisition of All Time? LinkedIn is at $17 Billion in ARR, still growing 10%, and its whole division is wildly profitable with 50%+ operating margins! There may be better M&A deals in the history of B2B. But there cant be too many better ones. appeared first on SaaStr.
SaaStr
JUNE 8, 2024
Dear SaaStr: Has Salesforce Overpaid for its Acquisitions, Including the $27.7 Billion Acquisition of Slack? It needed its top acquisitions to keep growing. In acquisitions, what’s much more important is that a few deals really perform over time. Billion Acquisition of Slack? It needed them. Without them?
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Tom Tunguz
APRIL 28, 2024
What drives the acquisition market of startups? If there are any increases, they tend to be in the bigger acquisitions of $500 million or more - although the sample size there is sufficiently small to conclude the trend is significant. Multi-billion dollar acquisitions, the blue bars, are the largest contributors to this swing.
SaaStr
MAY 25, 2023
And it reminded me of a stretch when over 6 months or so, I met with a series of entrepreneurs that turned down pretty attractive acquisition offers, relatively early in their lifecycle: SaaS Co. #1 Every Big Tech company has a budget for sub-$100m acquisitions. Some are for “tuck-in” acquisition to fill feature gaps.
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Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 15, 2023
I reviewed the roughly 560 US software acquisitions under $400m since January 1, 2020. ServiceNow tops the list with 5 acquisitions. Recruiter.com prefers small acquisitions: 4 purchases during the period, totalling less than $12m in value. Number of Acquisitions. To answer the question. Alphabet ingested 4 companies.
SaaStr
JUNE 27, 2022
But it also viscerally shows how much the bar has changed for a $10B PE acquisition in SaaS in just a few months. The post Zendesk and Anaplan: A Tale of Two Very Similar, And Very Different, $10B SaaS Acquisitions appeared first on SaaStr. (And yes, Zendesk also said No to another PE offer months prior at a much higher price).
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