Hellman & Friedman takes ZoomInfo private.
You showed the board that per-meeting customers spend 2.4x more. The board also has a share price under $3 to look at.
The board admires your slide, then votes on the share price. Your successor starts in May.
The Buyer: Hellman & Friedman is thrilled. 1.1x revenue for half a billion contacts.
The Buyer: Your agent becomes a feature. We'll call it AI-powered. Everyone does.
Outcome: Lost as a feature
Copilot on every seat kept one year quiet. Microsoft used that year to put a free sales agent in Outlook. Yours arrived second.