CLOSE THE DEAL 124: The top 10 missed opportunities

Imagine if Amazon had bought Netflix in 1998 – what would the streaming market look like today? Or what would have happened if Porsche and VW had actually gone through with their merger? And how different would the social media world be if Yahoo had taken over Facebook? These failed M&A deals could have completely changed the industry landscape. But what went wrong with these acquisitions, and why are they still so influential on today's market development?

Today, we're taking a look at the top 10 failed M&A deals. We'll be looking not only at economic aspects and poor decisions, but also at the strategic considerations behind these deals. To shed light on the topic from different perspectives, I'm once again joined by Florian Adomeit from AMBER and Noah Leidinger, managing director at OMR X.

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