Scott Bok
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Small business.
I think looking back, what really drove a lot of that was globalization.
I think if you if you think back to, you know, when I was a kid, I'm sure well, probably you're younger, but when you were a kid, I mean, every town had its own newspaper, every town had its own bank, every region had its own soft drink brands, its own ice cream brands, its own, you know, other, you know, uh consumer brands.
And if you think about what happened in the ensuing years, was you had
Trillions of dollars of MA that essentially rolled up companies into first national and then global sort of champions.
And you know, I looked back, for example, because I I thought this might be a topic given what's going on in the world right now.
And if you look at cross-border MA, and meaning buyer on one side, target on another, from American companies.
I mean, I look back in the early 1980s.
There were some years when there was roughly zero.
And
For the last 10, 15 years, it's between 500 billion and a trillion dollars a year.
So that's what really drove it was you had a very fragmented industry in every industry.
And still there's plenty of, there's always more deals to be done.
But what really happened was forming these national and global companies through MA.
Sure.
Yeah.
Much of the book is really about leadership and sort of navigating those five crises.
And the reason surviving is in the title is that a large majority of the Wall Street firms that were in business when I started are long gone.
So it really is a game of survival played on a grand scale.
And I do talk about those five crises.
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