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		wiseleo on July 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Examples of large acquisitions that did no... Cisco's acquisitions. There's a book about them. The Crescendo switch acquisition was extremely successful and they became Catalyst switches.

pea on July 12, 2022 [–]

Cisco has an interesting playbook with spin-outs as well, that I haven't seen many companies pull off (i.e. mpls multiple times over)

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