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Terrible news. New startups should be buying IBM. Not the other way around.
by ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
Terrible news. New startups should be buying IBM. Not the other way around.
- soraminazuki 3y agoLike how Google bought Doubleclick and definitely not the other way around?
- miningape 3y agoOh if only - it seems like somehow the shittiest culture manages to out survive the other and entrench itself inside the business. I know HN likes to blame this on the stock market forcing short term revenues but I think it goes deeper - the good "culture" employees actively flee these environments. Boeing acquiring McDonald Douglas is a classic example of this exact scenario: "McDonald Douglas bought Boeing with Boeings money."
- soraminazuki 3y agoBoth can be true at the same time, though. With one reinforcing the other.
- vundercind 3y agoHeh, interesting example because DoubleClick kinda did take over Google.
- dralley 3y agoIBM has ~280,000 employees. There's no sensible way for a company like IBM to be acquired by a startup.
- racl101 3y agoA startup like Microsoft? lol. IBM is pretty fucking huge still.
- rank0 3y agoLmao. Which startup has ~$200B to buy out IBM? Folks are loopy in startup land!
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoHuh? HashiCorp is a large, post IPO company. They aren’t a ‘new startup’. You just think that they’re flashy.