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Frank Quattrone's Autonomy Pitchbook

November 21, 2012 - 3:10pm
For anyone interested, here is the presentation that Autonomy and its infamous banker, Frank Quattrone (currently of Qatalyst - a bank best known for "borrowing" the templates and stylesheets of the investment banks its current employees previously worked at - and previously of "extended Wall Street sabbatical" which was cancelled so he would bring such quality deals as the sale of Palm to HPQ and, of course, Autonomy to HPQ) used to pitch Autonomy to Oracle, which led to a less than hospitable response by multi-billionaire Larry Ellison. Autonomy Overview (pdf 1 and pdf 2)   * * * As for Ellison's (who apparently did not become stinking rich by engaging in stupid transactions) take on the Autonomy sales pitch, here it is: "After HP agreed to acquire Autonomy for over $11.7 billion dollars, Oracle commented that Autonomy had been ‘shopped’ to Oracle as well, but Oracle ...

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