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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

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JUNE 24, 2022

Reactions have been mixed, Jacquelyn reports. Alomar led startups through the dot-com bust of 2000 and the Great Recession of 2008 and will talk about whether investors are still prioritizing growth over profits and how to identify the proof points founding teams must define before their next raise.

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JUNE 8, 2017

Not only did the incumbents fail to grasp the potential value, but it would have made no sense for them to go after such a small unprofitable niche, which would have been irrelevant to their top line, and eating away at their bottom line (CDs were 90%+ gross margin products back then). most of the value created would accrue to new entrants.

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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

History of The MP3

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