Michal Kauffman writes: By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant investments and real money: from the
European tech team that is jazzed about the
acquisition, to the U.S.
tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the
acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc....
In Latin America, outside of Brazil, a few IPOs from Argentina, and some copycat models from the US, the biggest
tech acquisitions have been in the $ 20M - $ 50M range — far less than their US,
European, or Asian counterparts.