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Ayelet Shipley

Ayelet Shipley

Co-host of the Inorganic Podcast and Head of Corporate Development & Deal Management at Speed M&A by JonesSpross (Liquidity Studio), based in Austin, Texas.

Aug 27, 2026

1:38
Okay.
1:38
Um, so let me just start from the top of it.
1:42
And yes, you're right.
1:43
It's, it is my least favorite part talking about this because, you know, it's hard to, it's hard to recall these things.
1:48
Um, so this was towards the, the beginning of when I actually got into M&A.
1:54
So I was starting at the associate level.
1:57
I was on the buy side, so I was actually ...

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12:41
... what it's about, and, uh, you know, who it's really for.
1:56
So talk a little bit about your journey into this world of M&A.
2:01
Yeah, it's funny because a lot of people say like, oh, well, you know, I would never started, you know, an M&A too.
2:07
And I'm like, oh, no, no, I didn't even start wanting to go into business.
2:12
So my whole, you know, pathway through my formal education, I thought I was going to be a therapist.
2:19
So, you know.
2:21
Starting internships when I was a teenager through my undergrad in psych, through my master's in clinical social work.
2:27
I was very much on the therapist track my entire life.

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27:35
I'm sure you see that a lot, especially dealing with the human side.

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