Topic
Acquisition
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Lyft bought a chauffeur business. Now it has to keep the clients.
Lyft’s TBR acquisition adds global corporate transport. The test is repeat bookings and service quality, not a promised robotaxi split.
Wonder bought Grubhub for distribution. Integration is the bill.
Wonder acquired Grubhub at a $650 million enterprise value. Making a larger ordering network useful is the harder part.
I thought regulators would block Alaska–Hawaiian. They didn't.
I doubted Alaska's 2023 Hawaiian Airlines deal would close. It did in 2024, leaving the promised consumer benefits to prove.
Elon Musk agrees to buy Twitter
Musk revived the $54.20 Twitter offer in October 2022. The useful question then was whether the deal would close.
Adobe plans to acquire Figma
Adobe's planned $20 billion Figma purchase looked defensive to a product-team user. The deal later fell apart.
Amazon takes stake in Grubhub
Amazon's 2022 Grubhub deal offered Prime distribution, but repeat orders after the free membership were the real test.
PayPal is exploring Pinterest acquisition
The reported PayPal–Pinterest talks in 2021 raised a product question: could payments improve shopping without spoiling discovery?
Facebook fined $69.6 million in the UK for Giphy takeover
The UK's £50.5 million Giphy fine targeted Facebook's conduct during merger review, which is more telling than the size of the penalty.
Uber completes Drizly acquisition
Uber's $1.1 billion Drizly purchase promised more delivery demand; the operating test was whether those orders paid for their own complexity.