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Acquisitions
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Making Sense of Dell + EMC + VMware
Andreessen Horowitz's breakdown of the $67B Dell-EMC deal — the largest tech acquisition in history at the time. The strategic driver was less obvious than it looked: Dell needed enterprise access and scale to survive the commodity hardware collapse, and going private again protected both companies from activist pressure.
Galvanize Acquires Zipfian Academy — WSJ
WSJ coverage of Galvanize's acquisition of Zipfian Academy in November 2014 — the deal that merged the data science bootcamp into Galvanize's broader tech education platform. A pivot point for both organizations.
The Chart That Scared Zuckerberg Into Spending $1 Billion On Instagram
Business Insider's reporting on the internal mobile growth data that motivated Facebook's $1B Instagram acquisition — Instagram was growing faster on mobile than Facebook itself. A concrete case study in defensive acquisition driven by internal metrics.