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by crunkykd 638 days ago
IronSource & WETA acquisitions may have been expensive mistakes
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After blowing $1.6B on WETA, Unity almost immediately pivoted and shutdown the company.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/11/unity-lays-off-hundre...

That is a tragedy. The amount of talent and brilliance robbed from the world…

I still don’t understand why companies buying other companies should be a thing at all. Anti-trust solved, competition restored.

>That is a tragedy. The amount of talent and brilliance robbed from the world…

That talent is all still alive, and will do brilliant things in the future. Probably moreso than if they were stuck working for Unity.

Execs fail, workers pay the price...