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Hacker News founder Paul Graham (pg) wrote in August 2010 about his experiences after his company Viaweb was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. http://paulgraham.com/y
by tokenadult 13y ago
Hacker News founder Paul Graham (pg) wrote in August 2010 about his experiences after his company Viaweb was acquired by Yahoo in 1998.
http://paulgraham.com/yahoo.html http://paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
He makes an explicit comparison between Yahoo and Google in his essay. Anyone looking at the strategy of large companies acquiring smaller companies might want to look at pg's essay as one more set of data points about what could happen after an acquisition.
- rocky1138 13y agoNote this little nugget in the footnotes: [2] In theory you could beat the death spiral by buying good programmers instead of hiring them. You can get programmers who would never have come to you as employees by buying their startups. But so far the only companies smart enough to do this are companies smart enough not to need to.