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3 questions in Build vs Buy.
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Build vs Buy intermediate
How do you decide whether to build or buy a capability, and what makes the decision reversible?
2 min answer build-vs-buydifferentiationexit-costtco -
Build vs Buy intermediate
In February 2022 Akamai announced it would acquire Linode for about $900 million and closed the deal in March 2022 at a purchase price of $898.8 million, adding an infrastructure-as-a-service business to a company that already ran one of the largest edge delivery networks. Akamai had the network, the capital and the engineers to build compute. What made buying the right call, and where would copying this be a mistake?
3 min answer akamailinodebuild-vs-buyacquisition -
Build vs Buy intermediate
What evidence should drive a build-versus-buy decision, and which arguments on each side are usually made badly?
2 min answer build-vs-buydifferentiationtcovendor