https://sairam.dev/tags/acquisition/ Recent content in acquisition on Sai Ram's Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2020. All rights reserved. Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://sairam.dev/post/acqhiring-the-new-way-of-hiring/ Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://sairam.dev/post/acqhiring-the-new-way-of-hiring/ This practice is so widespread that a term, acqhiring, has entered the industry lexicon to describe it. Even for the skeptics, it’s difficult to argue that these acquis- itions are about anything other than people. In many deals, like Facebook’s acquisition of Gowalla, the technology was not even a part of the transaction. And when the technology is included in the transaction, it is frequently released as open source post-acquisition. The New Kingmakers