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Isn't this akin to asking why Google and Apple end up acquiring companies at very high prices if they could just hire the founders and have them build the produ
by jrvarela56 3y ago
Isn't this akin to asking why Google and Apple end up acquiring companies at very high prices if they could just hire the founders and have them build the products in-house?
- toasterblender 3y agoPoaching founders is an entirely different kettle of fish than just poaching line employees.
- jrvarela56 3y agoOh, I thought finding these vulns was a highly open-ended endeavor with variable payouts.
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoIt depends. Some companies that buy exploits have public “price lists” for acquisitions. 100k+ for a Safari on iOS code exec, another 200k for the Safari sandbox escape, then another 500k+ for the kernel exploit? A full chain is real money. Especially when they resell this ability for 1-2M+ per user.
- toxik 3y agoGoogle absolutely “poach” promising startup devs tbh.