Acquired & Operating Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:08:10 -0400 en-us © 2026 Acquired & Operating yes a700ea92-8a19-5e3e-acee-c34b31bbbda8 wes.horbatuck@dmatter.com 77000c50-6510-11f1-ae61-d3ec18b23838 Andromeda, A Division Constellation Software Inc. episodic false Acquired and Operating goes behind the deal to the people going through an acquisition and what it is like operating afterward. Host Alexa Patino sits down with the operators inside Andromeda software, a Constellation Software company, for honest conversations about what an acquisition actually feels like from the inside. What changes, what takes time, and what it means to build something meant to last. 

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Andromeda, A Division Constellation Software Inc. wes.horbatuck@dmatter.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/rkjgigi0gqfq856scr4zr6ovdkm8?.jpg Acquired & Operating The Day I Found Out We Were Being Sold w/ Mike Vough The Day I Found Out We Were Being Sold w/ Mike Vough In the first episode of Acquired & Operating, host Alexa Patino sits down with Mike Vough, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Optimal Blue. Mike traces a career that began with a consulting job out of Penn State and took an unexpected turn when he answered a LinkedIn posting for a trading role he was not sure he was qualified for. He learned the business one step at a time on the DC metro every morning, bought into Compass Analytics, and then lived through three transactions in a few short years as the company was acquired by Black Knight, merged into Optimal Blue, and eventually divested to Constellation and Andromeda.

He talks honestly about the morning he found out the company would be sold, what it felt like to prepare a business for a deal while still running it, and how product P&L ownership changed the way his teams think and operate. The deal is the headline, but the people who keep building afterward are the real story.

]]> In the first episode of Acquired & Operating, host Alexa Patino sits down with Mike Vough, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Optimal Blue. Mike traces a career that began with a consulting job out of Penn State and took an unexpected turn when he answered a LinkedIn posting for a trading role he was not sure he was qualified for. He learned the business one step at a time on the DC metro every morning, bought into Compass Analytics, and then lived through three transactions in a few short years as the company was acquired by Black Knight, merged into Optimal Blue, and eventually divested to Constellation and Andromeda.

He talks honestly about the morning he found out the company would be sold, what it felt like to prepare a business for a deal while still running it, and how product P&L ownership changed the way his teams think and operate. The deal is the headline, but the people who keep building afterward are the real story.

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