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Date: "2025-01-30"
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# Podcast recording — 2025-01-30
Recorded episode with Adeel Khan. Great conversation.

## Notes
- Episode theme: third session with Adeel — this time covering the CTO's role in M&A integration, specifically how to evaluate and merge technology stacks when companies are acquired
- Adeel shared a detailed playbook from three acquisitions he led the technical due diligence and integration for, including the decision framework for which systems to keep, replace, or merge
- His fintech background made the compliance and data migration aspects particularly relevant — he addressed how to merge customer data across different regulatory regimes without creating a compliance nightmare
- Slightly more niche than his previous episodes but extremely valuable for listeners in leadership positions at growing companies; the practical frameworks are immediately usable
- Standout insight: "Technical due diligence is not about evaluating the code — it is about evaluating the team that wrote the code. The codebase you can fix; the engineering culture is much harder to change"
- Excellent audio quality; Adeel's home studio setup continues to deliver professional results

## Follow-up
- [ ] Send thank-you email to Adeel
- [ ] Draft show notes with the M&A technical integration checklist he walked through
- [ ] Schedule editing with [[person-paco-furiani]]
- [ ] Create social media clips — the due diligence framing is fresh and will appeal to CTOs and VPs
