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Re:Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny by scarface_74 on Monday August 04, 2025 @02:54AM (#44782785)
There was no world where Windsurf was going to challenge Google and the same is true for the examples.

These were regular old job offers. At any time, any of the employees could have stayed at Windsurf instead of taking a lot more money from Google.

Google didn’t want the “assets”. Google wanted the people. Even then they only wanted the best people.

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Re:Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny by Dylan16807 on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:08AM (#44782842)
> These were regular old job offers.

They were not.

> Google didn’t want the “assets”.

They paid 2.4 billion in licensing fees. Or something like that, looks like part of that was special structured not a regular old job offer money.

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