
Finding Your Tribe in the Tech World (Rabie Zahri and Zaheer Ali) - KNN Ep. 152
Ken's Nearest NeighborsShow Notes
Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Z and Rabie who are the co founders of Positon. Their company provides programmatic M&A capability as a service leveraging data analytics and machine learning algorithms to identify and evaluate potential acquisition targets, negotiate deals, and manage post-acquisition integration. In this episode we dive deep into what it means to find your tribe and your business partners, the value of a global perspective, and their thoughts on the pace technol...
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