169. How to Scale Your Corporate Development Function M&A Science

Saurabh Tejwani, Vice President, Corporate Development and Business Operations at GoPuff.
The corporate development function is crucial to a company's growth, and is primarily focused on strategic decisions to achieve inorganic growth. The more activity, the bigger the function should be. But scaling is not always easy, especially the first time around. 
In this episode of the M&A Science Podcast, Saurabh Tejwani, Vice President, Corporate Development and Business Operations at GoPuff, talks about how to scale a corporate development function. 
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