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- You can't play with 500k/yr strategy because they are other top companies with deeper pocket and can throw more money at employees than yahoo Those same top

- You can't play with 500k/yr strategy because they are other top companies with deeper pocket and can throw more money at employees than yahoo Those same top companies can throw more money at start ups as well. They don't because they don't think they are worth that much or much at all. also because it creates a bad precent, where current employees who might be more talented but getting 1/5th of the pay. It also artificially increases values of developers IMO. Nothing creates worse precedence than being a yahoo employee of few years and finding out the new guy in the next cubicle became a millionaire because he came via a start up that didn't go anywhere. THAT's demoralizing as it gets and tells existing yahoo employees that if you want to make millions, you should leave yahoo because that's what the guy next door did.

pavs 13y ago
I think you are very misinformed. - because Google and other big companies do pay crazy amount for acqui-hires, more often and more consistently than yahoo does: http://www.siliconbeat.com/2013/03/28/silicon-valleys-biggest-acqui-hire-er/ http://www.siliconbeat.com/2013/03/28/silicon-valleys-bigges... The reason Yahoo is more talked about because of Mayer and she is trying to pick up a sinking ship. A valiant u-turn of a dying silicon giant by an ex-googler story is more interesting than Google/MS/Facebook/Twitter acquiring to keep their strong position. - Being successful in startup takes a special kind of talent (with lotsa luck), if every joe/moe could do it, they would. Nothing is stopping any yahoo developer to leave their safe job and take on this challenge, but chances are they won't and most people don't.
- badclient 13y ago
  1. You've proven my own point true: that even after competition from others, yahoo can still continue buying companies. Similarly, I'd argue yahoo can hire great employees for lots of money(but less than aqui hire) even if google etc decide to compete with them in matching salaries. 2. Start ups are hard. But when so many joe schmoe start ups that have created so little value get acquired for 50M, all of a sudden it lowers the barrier for start up success and makes more people want to do it.

pavs 13y ago

I think you are very misinformed. - because Google and other big companies do pay crazy amount for acqui-hires, more often and more consistently than yahoo does: http://www.siliconbeat.com/2013/03/28/silicon-valleys-biggest-acqui-hire-er/ http://www.siliconbeat.com/2013/03/28/silicon-valleys-bigges... The reason Yahoo is more talked about because of Mayer and she is trying to pick up a sinking ship. A valiant u-turn of a dying silicon giant by an ex-googler story is more interesting than Google/MS/Facebook/Twitter acquiring to keep their strong position. - Being successful in startup takes a special kind of talent (with lotsa luck), if every joe/moe could do it, they would. Nothing is stopping any yahoo developer to leave their safe job and take on this challenge, but chances are they won't and most people don't.

badclient 13y ago
1. You've proven my own point true: that even after competition from others, yahoo can still continue buying companies. Similarly, I'd argue yahoo can hire great employees for lots of money(but less than aqui hire) even if google etc decide to compete with them in matching salaries. 2. Start ups are hard. But when so many joe schmoe start ups that have created so little value get acquired for 50M, all of a sudden it lowers the barrier for start up success and makes more people want to do it.