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This has been coming for a while. When they paid $200MM, that didn't make much sense to me. I guess they are finally admitting it now.

• webwright 15y ago
  Google pays 1-3M per engineer in all sorts of acqui-hires. This netted them ~100 engineers of the kind that Max can attract (i.e. top tier). It's a lot faster than acquiring 50 $2m companies that have 2 engineers each.
  • marcamillion 15y ago
    Interesting perspective...makes sense, when you put it like that.
  • neilc 15y ago
    I think this approach makes sense only if the acquired engineers stay at Google (and are significantly more productive than the average talent Google can acquire through less expensive channels). I suspect that many of the folks working for startups prefer being at small companies: if they wanted to work for Google they already would be.