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This isn't accurate. An "acquihire" is, by definition, purely about the people. Face.com was an acquisition, not an acquihire (or talent acquisition). As for
by robfitz 14y ago
This isn't accurate. An "acquihire" is, by definition, purely about the people.
Face.com was an acquisition, not an acquihire (or talent acquisition).
As for retaining the acquired folks, you usually pay out their earning over 4 years rather than all at once. So if an acquired founder leaves after a year, the acquiring company keeps 3/4 of what they ought to have paid to that person.
- rcamera 14y agoDisagreeing on a definition without giving better arguments than just stating I am wrong, then adding a comment on how companies retain the acqhired employees (which had already been discussed in other comments in the thread) is a very poor comment. Replace the Face example by the Sparrow example, being acqhired by Google. Acquisitions are about profits, Google's acqhiring certainly wasn't for Sparrow's profits, they bought them for both the team AND the technology they developed. They made Google's product better, and Google wanted to use both of these things to make their product even better.
- joshu 14y agoHe was pretty specific about the way in which you are incorrect. Acqhires are acquisitions where the primary interest is the team, not the IP or product.