Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by nine_k on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:14PM (#27376482)

Berkshire Hathaway has an exactly the same approach: an acquired company keeps operating in the way which made it successful.

I won't say this approach turned out bad for Berkshire or Mr. Buffett personally.

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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by mceachen on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:35PM (#27376630)

This approach requires

1. a _huge_ amount of trust and respect for the acquired team to not meddle/interfere, and

2. a huge amount of restraint to not force the acquired team into conforming to whatever standards and norms are present in the acquiring team.

Both of these are exceedingly rare.

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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by xeromal on Friday June 04, 2021 @09:51AM (#27393589)

I'd say this is accurate for the most part but they bought the first company I worked for out of college and they really tightened the screws on our benefits packages under the guise of "unifications" with their existing stuff. They ended up moving me to a high deductible insurance plan which was absolute nads

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