Hi, there, everyone. Im j. J. Ramberg and welcome to your business. The show dedicated to helping your growing business. Couple years ago we want to santa monica, california, to meet the founder of dog vacay. Matches pet owners with pet sitters. Their biggest competitor. We decided to head over to Rover Seattle headquarters to find out what it takes to smoothly merge two different cultures and two different teams and two different platforms in a way that makes sense for the company and the customers. It was just another regular work day at the santa monica headquarters of pet sitter booking company dog vacay. That is until it wasnt. That morning our ceo actually called an all hands meeting and brought the whole company in and sat us down and basically said, hey, were being acquired by rover. Which was kind of a shock for us. It was a shock for the employees. But not for the executive team. They had been working on this for years. Aaron easterly dog vacays biggest competitor had always
Hi there, everyone. Im jj ramberg. And welcome to your business, the show dedicated to helping your growing business. A couple years ago we went to santa monica, california, to meet the founder of dog vaca. An Online Service to match dog owners with pet sitters. The last year, everything changed for this company when their biggest competitor acquired it in all stock deal. We decided to find out what it takes to merge develop different cultures, two different teams and two different platforms in a way that makes sense for both the company and the customers. It was just another regular work day at the santa monica headquarters of pet sitter booking company dog vaca, that is until it wasnt. That morning our ceo called an allhands meeting and brought the whole company in, sat us down and said, were being acquired by rover, which was kind of a shock for us. It was a shock for the employees, but not for the executive team. They had been working on this for years. Aaron easterly, the ceo of s
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