Oct 17, 2026 · 1 min · 1 segments
An early account of launching a SPAC in 2010, raising $80 million and acquiring a digital signage company when SPACs were unpopular. The episode covers the successful de-SPAC, five years as executive…
The SPACs, special purpose acquisition companies, which are very popular today, were not so popular back then.
But the companies that were viewed to go public at the time were not viewed to use a SPAC only if they had no alternatives and so forth.
And as everybody else experienced back then, 2010, I believe, it was quite challenging.
and the company had its challenges, and I ended up buying it back as a take private, which is a whole other story of itself.
The SPACs, special purpose acquisition companies, which are very popular today, were not so popular back then.
But the companies that were viewed to go public at the time were not viewed to use a SPAC only if they had no alternatives and so forth.
And as everybody else experienced back then, 2010, I believe, it was quite challenging.
and the company had its challenges, and I ended up buying it back as a take private, which is a whole other story of itself.
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