[bee_rider]

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?

[hinkley]

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.

[dbish]

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

[nyokodo]

> 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.

[dbish]

It’s a bit different when you’re replacing or creating the head of a division since they’ll replace their own lieutenants and onwards down

[RockyMcNuts]

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.