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This is pretty obvious right?

All of the comments on the pandodaily article revolved around the fact that VC doesn't get their homerun payday during an acqui-hire.

It seems like the discussion around acqui-hires revolves around what the commenter's personal interests are for the most part.

However, it makes sense that the acqui-hire would become more prevalent for a couple reasons. There are many more startups being created, both increasing the supply of startups to acqui-hire and decreasing the %age of startups that exit in a home run. Also, the market price for developers is going up, and seeing someone execute and deliver a product in a product vertical you want to execute in makes you worth a large multiple of an unknown and/or average developer.