Acquisition Related Topics 
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
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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SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Dear SaaStr: We’ve Gotten a Good But Not Great Acquisition Offer. The post Dear SaaStr: We’ve Gotten a Good But Not Great Acquisition Offer. Should I Take It? Should you sell your startup if you get a good M&A offer? I’ve seen a second good one just never come again, or come too late, too many times.
SaaStr
JUNE 12, 2024
Dear SaaStr: Do Shares Get “Forward Vested in an Acquisition? One way or another, any acceleration is often (but certainly not always) re-negotiated in acquisitions, especially of earliest-stage companies. I.e., if you get fired after an acquisition, all your stock then accelerates vesting? But part of it.
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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
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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