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Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by gph on Thursday January 05, 2017 @08:10AM (#13326798)
Why not? That's a genuine question, not trying to be a smartass. Would a company that raised that much money not be worth its value to be acquired?

Edit: Looks like Instagram had raised 50m before being acquihired. Definitely a much different situation than this one, but it's not outside the realm of possibility that a company which raised 100+ million would be acquihired.

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Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by demystified on Thursday January 05, 2017 @09:03AM (#13327128)
I would not consider Instagram being "acquihired".

See definition from wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acqui-hiring): "...the process of acquiring a company to recruit its employees, without necessarily showing an interest in its products and services—or their continued operation"

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Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by ascorbic on Thursday January 05, 2017 @10:22AM (#13327762)
Instagram was sold for $1 billion with just 13 employees. That's certainly not an acquihire.
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Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by ascorbic on Thursday January 05, 2017 @10:21AM (#13327743)
Because acquihires are at much, much lower valuations than that. You'd be relying on the investors agreeing to basically write off their investment.
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