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Value After Hours E05 S24: Mark Valdez on Mergers and Acquisitions, Search Funds and Venture Capital

The Acquirers Podcast

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The Importance of Leveraging Software for Acquisition and Delivery

I really enjoyed the strategic aspects of that in addition to the day to day of meeting entrepreneurs and investing in early stage companies. Most recently, I was at a firm called Playground Global focused mostly on deep tech. And my job was to help build out the venture function, the team's strategy, the deal flow, run diligence processes and lead deals and sit on boards myself. Ended up leaving venture to pursue building Eastbridge holdings. The big thing guys is really that venture capital is jet fuel. It really only makes sense for a certain type of company. Not as many unicorns as there are dollars chasing unicorns.

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