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What does it mean by "bough the talent and the tech, but not the company"?

• austenallred 8y ago
  I think that's a poorly-worded way to say "the product will be built into facebook itself"
  • repsilat 8y ago
    Hmm, I think it's a legal thing to get the right money to the right people (by affecting taxes or liquidation preferences or...) If Facebook buys the company's IP but not the company itself, and the company pays out that cash in dividends and winds down operations, people could get paid quite different amounts than if Facebook had purchased all of their outstanding stock outright.
    • nedwin 8y ago
      Buying the company can sometimes be buying certain liabilities they don't want to deal with.