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do you know how ugly you are? we'll explain why bullying activists are so worried about it. good morning, everyone. i'm randi kaye, it is 8:00. thanks for waking up with us. let's get you caught up with some news. we start with the court appearance we'll all be watching. the man accused of planning the 9/11 attacks will be charged during a military tribunal. he and four others are being arraigned in guantanamo bay, cuba. mohammed is the alleged mastermind of 9/11, blamed for the attack that killed nearly 3,000 people. it will be a rare look at the man now dubbed ksn. he's probably ...

Time and space to give them a chance to react. and they purposefully had the dogvacay, not the rover team, run the announcement meeting. >> we wanted them to have a chance to shout or whatever. but by involving the dogvacay team in the decision, it comes easier because not coming from the new company, the strangers, it is coming from people they trust. >> seattle sent customer service agents down to santa monica to cover the phones because we knew we were going to get flooded for calls once our community got flooded with this. so we could process what was happen and really take it in. >> teams...

Acquired by rover, which was kind of a shock for us. >> it was a shock for the employees, but not for the executive team. they had been working on this for years. aaron easterly, the ceo of seattle-based rover, dog vaca's biggest competitor, had always considered the possibility of merging the two companies. >> i had reached out to aaron in the early days of the company and said, hey, does it make sense to put this together early? i think at the time, there wasn't a lot of interest, but we continued that conversation for five years straight. >> and they met with other ceos to understand what i...

Hi there, everyone. i'm jj ramberg. and welcome to "your business," the show dedicated to helping your growing business. a couple years ago we went to santa monica, california, to meet the founder of dog vaca. an online service to match dog owners with pet sitters. the last year, everything changed for this company when their biggest competitor acquired it in all stock deal. we decided to find out what it takes to merge develop different cultures, two different teams and two different platforms in a way that makes sense for both the company and the customers. it was just another regular work d...

Color scheme changed and the logo, it was a seamless transition and enjoyed rover just as much as dogvacay. >> but it was not all smooth sailing. >> i want happened so much faster than we thought, but because of that, we had consequences. we would have done a better job of the flexible support capacity had we understood how fast it would move. >> also it meant losing some great dogvacay talent. >> we had anticipated for the employees we wanted to keep, we would have three to six months to have the conversations. but instead, you know, the whole process moved so quickly that some of the employe...