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M&A That Transformed the Industry with Shveta Mujumdar (Intuit)

Episode Summary

Shevta Mujumdar has steered billions of dollars of capital in her career as the SVP of corporate development at Intuit. As a mind behind some of the most defining M & A transactions in the decade like Linkedin’s acquisition of Lynda or Intuit’s purchase of Mailchimp, Shveta sits down with us to share lessons learned in transformational M&A and her reflections on the uncertainty technology markets.

Episode Notes

Episode Highlights:

After studying economics at USC, Shveta inadvertently fell into a career in M&A after seeing many of her peers pursue the same path. She started out at Deloitte’s mid-market investment banking practice.
She then was able to steer important M&A decisions on the sell side as a leader in corporate development at Lynda, where she played a key role in Linkedin’s acquisition of the company.
It was this transaction that encouraged Shveta to think beyond just the mechanics of M&A activities and more about how the entire process impacts employees through the transition at large.
Today, Shveta oversees more of the buy-side of M&A as the SVP of Corporate Development at Intuit where she has managed the acquisition of Mailchimp and Credit Karma.
Reflecting on these deals, Shveta stresses that every deal is complex and unique in its own right.
She shares learning from Credit Karma how to navigate a deal with potential regulatory scrutiny and from Mailchimp how to operate in a very competitive and quick process.
Shveta talks about gender dynamics in the M&A world and the way she personally creates space for access in her role.

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