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DOING THE DEAL
JULY 2013–NOVEMBER 2013
This transaction makes all the sense rationally, but emotionally it gets complicated.
THE CLOCK BEGAN ticking as soon as we signed the term sheet, loan agreements, and some other documents.
Steve Ballmer and I had shaken hands on the high-level terms of a deal, and our respective boards had given their blessing. But agreeing on a deal and making it happen in practice are two completely different things. Just because the most important terms had been laid out didn’t mean that there weren’t a multitude of ...
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