Re:Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog
by mbesto on Thursday September 19, 2019 @10:11AM
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> A core team of pre-millionaires won't necessarily, or even likely, work the same as a core team of post-millionaires.
At the maturity of a company like Datadog post-would-be-acquisition is all about cross-selling your product into existing enterprise accounts, not necessarily enhancing the product. So this woulda actually save them money.
Say what you want about Oracle, but this is their modus operandi and it's worked.*
*- asterisk bc they have to continually do it like a treadmill in order to stay afloat.
At the maturity of a company like Datadog post-would-be-acquisition is all about cross-selling your product into existing enterprise accounts, not necessarily enhancing the product. So this woulda actually save them money.
Say what you want about Oracle, but this is their modus operandi and it's worked.*
*- asterisk bc they have to continually do it like a treadmill in order to stay afloat.