Hey there, thanks for the nit. I am kind of a language nerd, so always appreciate a bit of analysis. I see your point "poaching" as a word has had a somewhat pr

Hey there, thanks for the nit. I am kind of a language nerd, so always appreciate a bit of analysis. I see your point "poaching" as a word has had a somewhat problematic historical context attached to it. I guess I used the term relating to it's sub-definition "take or acquire in an unfair or clandestine way." I found the migration of experts from CMU to Uber fascinating — for two reasons: 1. The geographical proximity in which the acquisition occurred (i.e. a rust belt town with an awesome CS school and a well known Silicon Valley startup on location). 2. The moving from the academy to the private sector of said professors/researchers happened in a way I hadn't seen before. I mean lots of academics work within industry at some point, but this move seemed to carry more weight in the media — maybe because of the institution involved. Anyway, with that said, lots of the articles and speculation I read about it, for better or worse, painted the acquisition of academics by Uber as a bit unfair. I.e. Uber could and did pay way more than CMU and provided super interesting problems maybe outside the realm of what a professor normally faces in their research, I don't know. It was the "unfair" element portrayed in articles/opinion pieces I based my wording off of. I am in no way suggesting these profs and researchers did anything wrong or did anything but make the right choice for themselves, something we all have to do. I digress. Word choice noted, problematic history and other associations noted and hopefully I cleared up my choice a bit.