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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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