Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

Re:Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog by onion2k on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:59AM (#21013688)

What else are you paying $7B for if not the people?

Access to customers. User data. To remove a competitor from the market. Patents. Because the CEOs bonus depends on market share. To enter a new regional market.

There are lots of reasons to buy a company. Aquihiring the team is just one.

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Re:Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog by OJFord on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:02AM (#21014811)

And it's surely a risky reason to be the only (or main) one, you should probably assume a good chunk will leave immediately, and another chunk after 6m-1y, I'd have thought.

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Re:Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog by onion2k on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:34AM (#21014970)

Maybe, but you can easily guard against that by doing things like offering stock that vests over n years instead of cash.

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Re:Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog by zenlikethat on Monday September 23, 2019 @12:03PM (#21050150)

Revenue for Datadog is about $200 million ... "access to customers" isn't going to cut it for a $7,000,000,000 price tag.

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