Our Founder and Chairman Kimon Fountoukidis was a guest on Episode 7 of the memoQ talks podcast last week, where he spoke about best practices related to mergers and acquisitions in the localization industry and shared some of the lessons he’s learned after piloting multiple successful mergers. Highlights include a quick rundown of the history of M&A at Argos, Kimon’s tips for successful post-merger integration, and why “growth for the sake of growth” is a trap to be avoided.
You can check the episode out (and see Kimon rock a sharp-looking hoodie) here.
Gokhan Toros
4 min. read
Not long ago, the notion of a machine that could understand spoken words and translate them to a target language seemed like something from the fevered imagination of a science fiction writer. Fast forward to late 2021, and artificial intelligence (AI) and its subset machine learning are causing a revolution in localization. It’s useful to […]
Gokhan Toros
6 min. read
We’ve all seen the cautionary tales of companies that fell flat on their faces publicly after failing to properly localize when it was time to expand internationally. But what about the ones that actually do it right? Upon closer inspection, the companies that hit the nail on the head often share one common trait – […]
