938: The Art of the Possible | Jason Leet, CFO, Zylo

CFO THOUGHT LEADER · Oct 1, 2023 · 58m

Of the different acquisitions with which Jason Leet became involved at ExactTarget of Indianapolis, Indiana, there’s little question that the seventh was the most impactful on his finance career.

As it turned out, this would also be his last acquisition—or perhaps we should say his last ExactTarget acquisition, given that this time it was ExactTarget itself that was being acquired.

In 2013, ExactTarget became not only the largest company that tech wunderkind Salesforce had ever acquired but also the first publicly traded one.

Over the next 9 years, Leet would work on more than 40 acquisitions…