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Do you think high-profile CEOs or founders make their companies more attractive acquisition targets? (Poll Closed)

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Total Votes: 184
4 Comments

  • Frank Poggio - 8 months ago

    Definitely 'yes'. It comes under the heading of Marketing. A higher profile individual is a 'super communicator', hence a super sales person. He/she can open many new doors for the acquiring company.

  • Samantha Brown - 8 months ago

    Healthcare like every other industry gets caught up in the idolatry of the "innovators."

  • AT - 8 months ago

    When you have a brilliant and charismatic industry legend/pioneer (Frank Naeymi Rad) as co-founder/CEO that developed a mission-critical need/solution for almost every major EHR with necessary integrated clinical terminology and code mapping, including a monopoly-level market share and no real competition (IMO), it was beyond appealing for a PE firm to make that acquisition for the existing annual revenue with near zero attrition and seemingly limitless white space potential. I know I listed multiple factors, here, but he was undoubtedly a key driving force for the deal.

  • Discern World - 8 months ago

    Glenn Tullman
    Giovanni Collela
    Mike Mikan

    Many examples of "cult of personality" CEOs creating worthless companies and bilking billions.

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