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Salesforce Plans a $5.66 Billion Addition to the Customer Conversation

Salesforce announced a $5.66 billion deal to acquire Braze, with completion expected in fiscal 2028. Braze shareholders would receive $47.50 in cash per share, and the stock rose 51% following the announcement. The transaction has a future closing timetable, leaving a substantial interval between the announcement and the expected combination. The market reaction arrived considerably faster than that calendar can move. For people assessing the deal, price, timing and eventual integration are separate questions. A vigorous announcement-day response does not perform the work of combining businesses. Corporate acquisitions offer the peculiar spectacle of buying something enormous and then facing the equally substantial task of figuring out how everything belongs in the same organizational closet.

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