I love when a company acquires a small app or startup in general. Basically because it allows us to dream to build something that a big company can incorporate

I love when a company acquires a small app or startup in general. Basically because it allows us to dream to build something that a big company can incorporate in some of its famous product or just it will become famous itself. After an acquisition like that, I ask to myself : Does Reddit have smart developers to build a mobile app like that? Why do they need to do an acquisition to get a good app? The questions seem trivial, Reddit has great developers, but looking forward the last acquisition by Apple( that never done before), I think that in the next future the company employees will be no single person, but startups.