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No company can keep that promise. The desire to meddle is irresistible, especially if they see the "independent" company go in a direction the mother company do
by mtgx 7y ago
No company can keep that promise. The desire to meddle is irresistible, especially if they see the "independent" company go in a direction the mother company doesn't like.
The only place where this seemed to work reasonably well for a while was YouTube & Google, but even that was ruined the moment Google decided it needs "unified accounts" and to insert the Google+ social network into YouTube.
- saltminer 7y ago> The desire to meddle is irresistible, especially if they see the "independent" company go in a direction the mother company doesn't like. Yep, often times the upper management thinks "wow what a successful company", then sees why said company is so successful after the merger and thinks "we're the best, we gotta make them just like us and they'll be even more successful", and the meddling begins. It also helps management get bonuses for helping "integrate" the acquired company with the parent one, helping "boost efficiency" and "reducing overhead" or some other way of glossing over "we destroyed what made them attractive and successful".
- kevinmgranger 7y agoHas Microsoft noticeably meddled with GitHub yet?
- DaiPlusPlus 7y agoThey made paid GitHub account benefits available for free.