Re:Businesses should try to be the best, not the biggest
by koonsolo on Friday January 29, 2021 @09:10AM
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"Hey developers, you will be out of a job when some other company acquires us. This is best case for us, because we will make a lot of money. Unfortunately for you, you don't have any shares, so you will probably just be fired or prodded to leave".
I think I was the first one to realize what was going on: we were the developers in Belgium, and we had some cheap developers in Eastern Europe. They had developers in US. They were going to continue developing their own product, and would "keep us all as developers".
But from their point of view, it didn't make much sense to me that "We have devs in EU, but those guys from Belgium are 4x more expensive than those from another country". I quit shortly after the acquisition, and my colleagues all left a year later. They kept the developers in Eastern Europe.
It makes total sense to me, and I'm not resentful about it, probably because it's so easy for developers to find a new job.
One other thing I want to mention: they were very transparent on the strategy when they were acquiring various smaller companies. Very insightful.
I think I was the first one to realize what was going on: we were the developers in Belgium, and we had some cheap developers in Eastern Europe. They had developers in US. They were going to continue developing their own product, and would "keep us all as developers".
But from their point of view, it didn't make much sense to me that "We have devs in EU, but those guys from Belgium are 4x more expensive than those from another country". I quit shortly after the acquisition, and my colleagues all left a year later. They kept the developers in Eastern Europe.
It makes total sense to me, and I'm not resentful about it, probably because it's so easy for developers to find a new job.
One other thing I want to mention: they were very transparent on the strategy when they were acquiring various smaller companies. Very insightful.