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Inside Information on the Ad Tech Space
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The ad tech space is highly competitive, and startups are always looking for acquisitions due to constant changes in the industry's rules. The speaker's sister worked for a startup that pursued an acquisition from companies such as Facebook and Google due to their fragility in the industry.
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