David Magee
@DavidMagee
Product Director @ a $200M eComm (books!) | Formerly: Energy Innovation @ Bowman Power, Aerospace @ QinetiQ | WBS MBA
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Thanks @harleyf - we made it - Oct launch and >1M orders by early Dec. Shopify x WOB: 7M SKUs 5M daily reprice events 4 currencies 3 languages 2 international warehouses 1 platform Biggest BFCM, ever. Biggest Christmas trading, ever. 2025 will be WILD.
Big and painful PE M&A deal lesson for me is that the same asset bought in 2020 vs 2021 could deliver wildly different outcomes. Valuations swing, debt markets tighten, regulatory winds shift. Too often, companies focus on “fit” and forget “timing.” Sometimes the best deal…
Great times with the @Shopify crew in London yesterday. Shared the stage at @ecommerceexpo, and had dinner with a great group of CTOs and leaders across retail brands and merchants, joined by Bobby Morrison. Most importantly…meeting our legend of system architecture - Markus!
Super interesting to me how PE firms often outperform corporates in M&A because they treat every dollar like it’s their own: Rigid investment committees challenge assumptions. Detailed 100-day plans define integration before the ink is dry. Exit strategy is clear before entry…
Getting involved in PE M&A was a baptism of fire for me. On paper, synergies are neat. Cost out, revenue up, margins expand. All EBITDA focus. In reality, they’re messy: Cost synergies = layoffs, system migrations, and supply contracts renegotiated. Revenue synergies =…
Getting deeper into M&A, wild to see McKinsey put the failure rate of integration at >70% The reason is usually simple: integration is treated like a side project when it should be a core discipline. We ran a big deal a few years ago and saw some success in PE with these steps:…
A big learn for me getting involved in PE M&A was that many deals don’t create value through synergies at all...they create value through multiple arbitrage : Smaller private firms might sell for 6× EBITDA. Large public firms in the same industry might be valued at 10×. If a…
Getting more involved in PE M&A over the years, it is interesting to see the stats on between 70–90% of acquisitions not delivering the promised gains. Depressingly consistent reasons: Overpaying (CEOs get deal fever, advisors cheer them on). Poor timing (buying at market…
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Customers don’t care that you use AI. They care that their order isn’t late.
“Run to significance” sounds noble until you realize you’re testing button colors for 9 months.
50% of A/B tests fail. The other 50% just prove the control was fine all along.
Every standup has two roles: the person blocking and the person pretending not to be blocked.
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