Dreaming. If you can snap up a team of smart developers for $1M cash each + $200k/year salary for 4 years, that can have a large impact on your product road map

Dreaming. If you can snap up a team of smart developers for $1M cash each + $200k/year salary for 4 years, that can have a large impact on your product road map. Say you're, for example, Apple looking to push out iOS 4.1 for iPad, and you acquired a Mac dev studio of 30 talented people for $60M - that can have a large impact (eg: bring forward your road map by 6 months) for the next few years. Another example might be Facebook acquiring FriendFeed, Brett went on to be CTO - are you seriously saying that isn't a talented and valuable acquisition for that talent? $50M is a drop in the ocean for companies turning over billions. Also saying ideas/talent can't be acquired when they took a "minority private equity investment" from Jeff Bezos for: > ... the wisdom of a very special entrepreneur who’s been through what we’re going through. Someone who sees things a little differently and makes us feel right at home If you're looking to create, say, a payment platform (Facebook Credits) maybe it makes sense to get the talent that has created a similar product (eg: TipJoy) Also Apple acquiring NeXT and Steve Jobs becoming CEO and transforming the company - sure there was tech, but you know ...