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Episode 8: Acompli, Sunrise, and Wunderlist (w/ Kurt DelBene)
Acquired
The Client App Is the Front Door to the Consumer Experience
I can't think of a case where we have ever acquired anything purely for the sake of getting it out of the hands of a competitor or keeping it from being independent. Eric Schmidt testified that one of the key reasons both for the acquisition and for the price they paid for YouTube was to keep it out of other people's hands. I don't believe he named specific competitors but implied that they were other very large technology companies. You're not thinking about how you use it as a chess move, how you would make an acquisition to be a chess move to keep something out of somebody else's reach.
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