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Pluralsight to acquire "A Cloud Guru" ACG.
Pluralsight to Acquire A Cloud Guru to Accelerate Solving the Single Biggest Challenge in IT Today: The Growing Cloud Skills Gap
Silicon Slopes, Utah – June 2, 2021 — Pluralsight, Inc., the technology workforce development company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire A Cloud Guru (ACG), a leading cloud skills development platform. The acquisition is expected to close later this year, subject to customary closing conditions and follows Vista Equity Partners’ recent acquisition of Pluralsight.
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Infosec_Sam
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Interesting! I'm curious to see what kinds of changes we'll see in both of these products going forward. -
chrisone
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Pluralsight definitely a big house content provider. I am sure it isn't financially easy to maintain cloud labs. Hopefully they provide more labs for more cloud technologies.Certs: CISSP, EnCE, OSCP, CRTP, eCTHPv2, eCPPT, eCIR, LFCS, CEH, SPLK-1002, SC-200, SC-300, AZ-900, AZ-500, VHL:Advanced+
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JDMurray
Admin Posts: 13,099 Admin
I assume ACloud will be a separate division of Pluralsight and continue maintaining its own content and brand.I also wonder how much cash vs. stock options that Sam and Ryan Kroonenburg are getting in the deal. From the ACG blog posting, it looks like both will be staying on a while.
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JDMurray
Admin Posts: 13,099 Admin
ACG bought for US$2B and Sam and Ryan are the principle owners--not bad! The Linux Academy acquisition and the events of 2020 didn't hurt ACG's business.For comparison, Microsoft bought Minecraft (Mojang) for US$2.5B and Disney bought the entire Star Wars franchise for US$4B.
