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by beat 2818 days ago
It's kind of different for enterprise. The acquisition cycle is often to expose a good product to a more deeply entrenched sales system. Acquired companies have proven they have a product that enterprise companies are willing to buy (and go to some pain to do so), but they don't have the ability to sell anything anywhere that someone like Salesforce, IBM, or Atlassian can do.