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 doe

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.