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Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. Initially, Insomnia Cookies founder Seth Berkowitz operated his business out of his University of Pennsylvania dorm room, making late night deliveries of cookies he’d baked to residents of other dorms across campus. Insomnia Cookies.

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Balloch earned a BS degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Stefanova was a Senior Manager at IBM, Global Business Services, specializing in post-merger integration and change management in the financial services and technology industry in Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA).

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And you need to look at the data very critically, because the other side of the merger or acquisition is actually trying to frame all the information in a way that is beneficial to that side and against your side. For example, just straight deaths for Pennsylvania could account for 30% of the gap between Trump and Hillary in 2016, right?