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Episode 27: Special—A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz

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Is There a Price for a Startup?

Microsoft is typically a product driven company when it comes to M&A. And so we're not out there looking to assemble in kind of business conglomerate sense and amalgamation of random software companies. So you could certainly have that kind of business where you can, through synergies of overhead and sales and other things, can make good money at. We're not really in that game. We're here to grow our franchises and our products and really be a leading technology company.

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