Becker's Healthcare July 10, 2019
A report in The Wall Street Journal discusses the strategy used by Amazon’s internal business development team — a team that has closed $20 billion in deals since January 2017.
Four notes on the Amazon strategy:
1. Amazon moves quickly. Sources told WSJ the tech giant tracks markets for years and then closes deals in a fraction of that time. Its talks with Whole Foods, a $13.7 billion deal, took less than two months, and its $753 million acquisition of PillPack was negotiated in weeks.
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