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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 

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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.