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Build Optionality: Navigating an Acquisition

Lak Ananth and William Smith

The best founders don’t just have a Plan A for financing their growth—they have a Plan B, Plan C, and so on whenever possible. They create optionality for themselves and their organizations, ready to step onto a different path if the one they’re on isn’t taking them where they want to go, as quickly as they want to get there.