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I would assume that those lists are internal, but if you look at their acquisition history, it seems like pretty much any company that is profitable and can hel
by dimmke 3y ago
I would assume that those lists are internal, but if you look at their acquisition history, it seems like pretty much any company that is profitable and can help them in an area they're involved in, even if indirectly. Look at how they snapped up Mojang (Minecraft) and Activision, which gives them a ton of leverage in gaming. But also Github, which combined with VSCode gives them a ton of leverage in the developer space.
It's pretty incredible to me that this kind of stuff still gets discussed by executives over email in this day and age. Not that this content is particularly scandalous (beyond the fact that they're talking about acquiring Nintendo like it's not a big deal, man they really aren't worried at all about antitrust regulation) but it's extremely candid about their overall strategy and they have to know these emails becoming public record due to discovery in some such lawsuit or hack is a big possibility.
- Rastonbury 3y agoNot much different than an exec leaving for a rival