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Hosted by Christian Hassold & Ayelet Shipley · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 80 episodes
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Ayelet Shipley and Christian Hassold host the Inorganic Podcast. Ayelet and Christian have combined 20 years of experience helping venture and private equity sponsors execute mergers and acquisitions in SaaS and digital agencies in the U.S. and Europe. On this podcast, Ayelet and Christian discuss M&A strategy, sourcing tactics, and other dynamics around mergers and acquisitions. They also report on market activity, emphasizing larger companies buying smaller SaaS or agencies and discussing the rationale behind the deals and economics. We sometimes invite guests to join our discussion, building on our mission to make the art and science of M&A more transparent for buyers, sellers, and financial sponsors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Christian Hassold & Ayelet Shipley hosts Inorganic Podcast, a business show with 80 episodes published.
Last week Christian called Vista's rumored bid for Criteo "cheap" and left it at a throwaway line: three to four times.. what? A few people texted him afterward and said he could have done better; he agreed. So this week
Private equity just bid to take Criteo private at a 50%+ premium and two of the sharpest voices in commerce & media read the exact same filings and reached opposite conclusions. Ayelet Shipley and Christian Hassold break
Walmart just bought its way into the connected TV arms race, and The Trade Desk is the biggest loser. In a ~$1.4B deal announced during Cannes Lions week, Walmart Connect is acquiring Vibe.co, the self-serve CTV/streamin
Accenture Song's planned acquisition of the Whalar agency was called the largest creator economy transaction ever. The structure underneath that headline is far more interesting than the number. In this special edition,
Steve Engelbrecht started Sitation from a rental apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts — five weeks after being laid off in the chaos that followed 9/11. Today it's a 62-person commerce enablement firm with a client ros
Fourteen deals worth mentioning in a single week. And those are just the ones that surfaced. The week before Cannes, the dam broke. Christian and Ayelet break down the deepest deal review we've done yet — anchored by a t
Erik Huberman has acquired 23 agencies in 10 years — and he doesn't pay cash up front for any of them. Recorded live at Possible 2026 Ayelet sat down with Erik Huberman, founder of Hawke Media, for one of the most candid
A month forecasted that Accenture was about to make a material acquisition in the creator space. This week it happened. Accenture Song is acquiring Whaler Agency — the most awarded creator agency in the Western hemispher
Kevin Simonson has now sold two agencies. The first — Metric Digital to Wpromote in 2020. The second — adMixt to Interluxe Group, announced this week. And he came on In/Organic Live the same week the deal closed to talk
our deals this week. One disclosed price. The same trade running through all of them — buyers acquiring capability quietly rather than building it. Christian and Ayelet break down what each deal actually signals about wh
Most scaled independents looked at Grapevine.ai during the sale process and didn't get it. They couldn't process the economic model. They didn't know how to assess the technology. Justin Hayashi leaned in and won. Record
iHeart to start a B2B podcast network — read the signal 7:50 — Podcast agencies are still priced like services businesses, not talent factories 8:50 — The valuation gap: no shared yardstick for IP and franchise value bef
Podean just closed their fourth acquisition in nine months. Travis Johnson is hinting at a fifth. Mountain Gate's strategic roadmap had six puzzle pieces. Four are filled. Two more to go. This is what a PE-backed indepen
Everyone wanted the commerce front end. Nobody wanted the data. Joe Gadreau watched agency after agency walk away from the hardest — and most important — part of the commerce stack while he was at Salsify. So he went and
Most AI acquisitions add a layer. This one removed a layer — for everyone else. Anthropic acquired Stainless, the developer tools company that built SDKs for OpenAI, Google, Cloudflare, Perplexity, and dozens of other AI
Publicis dropped a bomb on Sunday. By Monday, LinkedIn was on fire. Christian, co-host of the In/organic Podcast pulled together two of the sharpest voices in commerce and media to break down what this deal actually mean
The Accenture agency acquisition is still in progress. Five AI tuck-ins closed this week across fintech, crypto, process mining, hardware, and spend management. And three deals that tell you everything about where the lo
We've been saying one of the big strategics was going to move on a scaled independent agency. It's happening. Christian and Ayelet are back for Deal Review Friday with breaking news on an imminent Accenture acquisition,
What does it really take to sell your business — and are you actually ready? In this episode of the InOrganic Podcast, we sit down with Brenda Jacobsen, Managing Director at STS Capital Partners, a sell-side M&A advisory
Something big is coming!... Water cooler conversations at the Possible conference are pointing to a major deal announcement in the next two weeks — a strategic buyer nobody has seen coming, going after independent agenci
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