Notes

INTRODUCTION

1.   See “RIP Good Times,” Sequoia Capital, last accessed March 19, 2022, https://articles.sequoiacap.com/rip-good-times.

2.   See “Smartphone Penetration in the United States from 2008 to 2014,” Statista, released January 2012, https://www.statista.com/statistics/218529/us-martphone-penetration-since-2008/.

3.   See Tirthankar Roy, The East India Company: The World’s Most Powerful Corporation (India: Penguin Books Limited, 2016).

4.   See “Number & Value of M&A Worldwide,” Institute of Mergers, Acquisitions & Alliances (IMAA), last accessed March 19, 2022, https://imaa-institute.org/mergers-and-acquisitions-statistics/.

5.   See “The State of the Deal: M&A Trends 2020,” Deloitte, last accessed March 19, 2022, https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/mergers-acqisitions/us-mna-trends-2020-report.pdf ...

Get Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.