Attack of the Acqui-hires

Re:Attack of the Acqui-hires by vexxt on Friday August 10, 2012 @12:21PM (#4366834)

The reason they do acqui-hires is to bail the VC out. The same VC sits on the board of the aquiring company.

And we all know what happens when you try to hire away employees due to no-poach collusion, the hirer get's fired after Steve Jobs's email.

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Re:Attack of the Acqui-hires by chermanowicz on Friday August 10, 2012 @02:26PM (#4367478)

While I don't think this is systematic, it definitely happens from time to time and nobody says anything about it.

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Re:Attack of the Acqui-hires by joshu on Saturday August 11, 2012 @03:14AM (#4369646)

This is much rarer than you think. Cite some examples.

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Re:Attack of the Acqui-hires by vexxt on Monday August 13, 2012 @12:23PM (#4376637)

Most of the recent aqui-hires. AOL buying Netscape.

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Re:Attack of the Acqui-hires by joshu on Friday August 17, 2012 @08:09PM (#4399570)

So you don't have any examples or know what you are talking about. Got it.

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Re:Attack of the Acqui-hires by eli on Monday August 13, 2012 @05:24PM (#4378236)

Didn't that happen over a decade ago? Or am I confused?

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