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Private equity must preserve customer value after acquisition
Private equity must preserve customer value after acquisition
O’Driscoll argues that Workday's ecosystem can remain highly profitable, but excessive price extraction or insufficient product investment could encourage customers to seek newer alternatives.
- Interview
- Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- Speaker
- Rory O’Driscoll
- Source timestamp
- 55:53
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