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Seems to me that your analysis suffers from a fundamental attribution error (blaming you rather than circumstances). While it is possible that you could have done a few things better (with the help of the ever so omni-potent captain hindsight), my experience is that such deals are complicated and involve a lot of people. So I think it is much more likely that the final outcome was more out of your control than your essay implies.

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He can't influence the part that was out of his control, though, while he could indeed have influenced the part that was in his control: Give them a call when you haven't heard from them in a month. Even though that obviously doesn't make the acquisition a certainty (obviously), it's doing the best you could do at the time, so you don't have to kick yourself over it later.

In short, if he had called them, the post would be "Google moved to acquire me, but it fell through. The end."

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