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Why Most Mergers & Acquisitions Fail Expert Insights #mrozansonmez #podcast

Name: Why Most Mergers & Acquisitions Fail Expert Insights #mrozansonmez #podcast
Uploaded: 2025-07-09T23:45:01+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Ozan Sonmez
Description: Excerpt from a YouTube podcast by Ozan Sonmez explaining why many mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fail: large companies often attempt to force acquired…

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Excerpt from a YouTube podcast by Ozan Sonmez explaining why many mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fail: large companies often attempt to force acquired startups to adopt incumbent processes and culture, underestimating cultural and operational differences. The speaker recommends creating different structures—sometimes separate entities—to preserve the acquired teams’ ability to build new products and services.

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And this mistake has been done many, many, many times. When a large company goes out and buys a small company, a startup, there is always a fight when they want to incorporate them and kind of have them operate and do exactly what the large company is doing the way they had been doing. It doesn't work out. So most of the buys, buyouts and M&As had been failures because they underestimated the differences in culture and operations and understanding. So you need to have different structures to make the best out of the people. And sometimes it's creating structures outside. If you really want to build new companies and new products and new services.