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0 pointsbee_rider2y ago0 comments

Does getting acquhired by MS imply your company sucked?

There are things I like about where I’m at but if MS really wanted to they could send enough dump trucks full of cash to ruin the local traffic situation. Is it worth staying at a place if you can’t even get out of the driveway to get to your favorite little cafe?

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hinkley2y ago· 2 in thread

It means your people are good and your product isn’t. That requires a kind of cognitive dissonance that some people would call “suckage”. Certainly had that conversation many, many times.

Just be careful you aren’t Boeing buying McDonell Douglas, where the cut throat culture infected the host and killed it, rather than being muted and managed out.

dbish2y ago

Eh I think some startup culture injected into Microsoft is a good thing, whatever that might mean. Have to shake things up

nyokodo2y ago

> startup culture injected into Microsoft is a good thing

Companies like Microsoft have consumed countless startups and startup employees over the decades and are practiced at digesting them without being changed all that much.

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RockyMcNuts2y ago

didn't really get acquihired, which would be if MSFT bought inflection, instead it seems MSFT hired away a team, probably with options and whatnot.

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