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Formstack quietly rebranded to Intellistack. Medallia handed its owners a $5 billion loss. The business of capturing what customers and employees tell you is being repriced - and AI is doing the repricing.
In April 2021 the document-tech firm then called PDFTron bought Windward Studios, a Colorado company that started making a strategy game in 1996 and ended up generating 10 million business documents a month. Here is how a pivot became an acquisition.