Acquihire Debate
Discussions center on whether a specific acquisition was an acquihire to obtain talent rather than the product or business, with many comments speculating it fits this pattern.
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Makes sense if it was an acqui-hire.
Seems like an acqui-hire to me.
Indeed, more like an acquihire at this stage.
You do realize acquisitions occur?
It's acquihires all the way down.
How is it an acquihire if the company is interviewing all the talent they acquired anyway?
It was a acquihire. Buy the talent, kill the company.
Aren't acquihires really about the IP?
That really sounds like an acquihire to me.
Maybe it's an "acqui-hire".