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Why the Tuck-In Merger Often Fails
Lucas and Luna examine why tuck-in acquisitions—where a large company buys a smaller one and folds it into an existing division—fail more often than standalone integrations. They walk through a 2024 study of 400 tuck-in deals by McKinsey that found 60% destroyed value within three years. The hosts drill into one failed example: Microsoft's 2016 acquisition of LinkedIn's professional network integration, which never hit its revenue synergy targets despite LinkedIn's continued brand success. They contrast that with Adobe's 2018 tuck-in of Magento, where Adobe ruthlessly…
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