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Make no mistake, in a private equity acquisition like this where the company is earning around $50mil profit on a billion dollars revenue, they will cut costs to make their money back.

This PE firm led acquisition of Zendesk for $10bil in 2022 and McAfee for $14bil in 2021

They've spent over $30billion dollars on just these 3 acquisitions in 3 years. Many of which would be part financed.

Culture after zendesk goes acquired (including 8% layoffs 2023) https://www.teamblind.com/post/Zendesk-changes-after-going-p...

Squarespace financials https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/sqsp/financials/

More info on this PE firm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permira

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