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 grea

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.