FWIW, I was an early employee at a startup that was acquired around 1998 for around this amount of money. In those days this wasn't considered an "acquihire" b

FWIW, I was an early employee at a startup that was acquired around 1998 for around this amount of money. In those days this wasn't considered an "acquihire" but a "successful exit" or a "base hit". (e.g.: not a failure but not the success that pays for all the other companies in the VC firms cohort that year.) The VCs got about 5X on their money and because of liquidation preferences and other shenanigans, I, and the other employees, pretty much got screwed.