[mgnn]

Who came up with this term? There's no reverse in that definition. I'd expect a reverse acquihire to be something like windsurf getting Google people and absorbing google. Maybe something like Boeing and McDonnell Douglas.

It's actually just doing the hire but omitting the acqui. Maybe truncated acquihire if they had to have acquihire in the term.

[weikju]

I’d think a reverse acquihire would be Apple buying Next where Next mostly takes over Apple (Jobs coming back, OpenSTEP becoming the base of macOS)