[mda]

You think android and waymo is built by the people who came with acqusitions?

[mbreese]

At the time... yes. That's the point of an acquisition - to buy talent/skills/tech when you don't have that talent in-house (or to augment existing talent).

Now, many years later and with normal amounts of turn over? That's a different question all together.

[hammock]

Yes of course. The parts of Android and Waymo that matter most were already built, or are being built, by folks from the acquired company.

[joshuamorton]

Given that at acquisition, the android team was <30 people, and it had to be mostly rewritten before it was originally launched, and has been significantly changed since then, I think this is blatantly false ;)