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Re:What Happened to All 53 of Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Acquisit... by eknkc on Thursday June 16, 2016 @06:29AM (#11915195)
Just guessing;

It might be really valuable to acquire a team of people, known to work / accomplish together. I think talent is not in short supply but god teams are hard to come by.

Also, the patents they acquire might be important in the long term too.

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Re:What Happened to All 53 of Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Acquisit... by ernestbro on Thursday June 16, 2016 @09:15AM (#11915843)
A team of people known to work & accomplish together had a common motivation when they worked for a startup, usually building a single product for a single market. The effects of this focus + motivation is huge. When a larger company like Yahoo acquires the focus + motivation is pulled from underneath them and quickly become quite average.
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