Coolest Corp Dev Roles
What are the coolest companies you guys have heard someone getting a corp dev role at? Curious as to what potential companies could look like.
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My buddy works in the Corporate Development team at one of the large breweries (think Anheuser-Busch / Molson-Coors / Heineken)
Worked for someone who was the head of M&A for the US Navy, procuring the latest technology and equipment. I think that is pretty tough to top.
Lots of people would say like alcohol / weed industry, but TBH, those deals have to be boring af. Aside from the closing dinners, what else is cool about it? All the products are inherently the same.
I think working for a company looking to expand via new platforms is generally the coolest criteria. That way you are learning about something completely new, and truly strategically (if successful) growing the business.
To answer your question though, from an industry perspective, I feel as though A&D / Consumer are the two coolest places. You get to look at a lot of unique applications under one umbrella.
From personal experience, weed is boring. It's basically very small scale ag and retail without any innovation.
Used to work in M&A for big tobacco. Fascinating industry, a lot of companies are trying to pivot/divest from standard cigarettes which leads to high dealflow. Regulatory risk also implies a lot of strategy work, which is extremely interesting. Learned a ton and how he people were great despite being in such a traditional industry!
Anything with national security or defense applications. Not corp dev but the CIA's VC arm In Q Tel would be pretty cool. More tech focused but would love to be a fly on the wall for corp dev at Palantir.
Space tech would be sick too. Corp dev for SpaceX, partnerships at NASA that sort of thing.
Deep tech stuff like synthetic biology, just lots of uncharted territory.
Big entertainment or video game studios sounds pretty sick.
interned at a game company in corp dev - can confirm
I know someone who was corp dev at mindgeek(owners of pornhub and basically every porn site).
Super interesting. Tons of rollups and consolidation in the space.
Very very interesting marketing materials.
Car / motorcycle companies, hospitality / gaming, restaurants, A&D, the list goes on….
saw a job posting recently for corp dev at vail resorts. Seems like that would be interesting
I moved to Denver a year before Covid. Vail Resorts is in Broomfield. Beautiful area. I am not sure if that company is fully remote or not. You get to look at the mountains while your work.
NBA and Nike corp dev
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