The big winners in an aquisition are the founders and investors, not the employees unless they have a ton of stock (which basically makes them investors). The

The big winners in an aquisition are the founders and investors, not the employees unless they have a ton of stock (which basically makes them investors). The average employee is seen as a resource. Google is almost always buying talent, not products. If they want to buy your product, it's usually to shut it down so it doesn't slow down the progress of their big Google products. The only way Google buys something and keeps it alive is if it is big enough or strategic enough to make into flagship products, but those are very rare.