unless cloudflare's CEO is a friend of cloudflare people, so just want to financially them bail out...
...why acquire and kill? cloudflare can have more outreach and reputation by keeping deno alive
Aquihiring is a time-tested strategy to build out a team. The Deno folks likely have a bunch of experience that Cloudflare is well placed to make use of
Unless you dangle HEFTY stock options with incremental maturity dates, nothing is else is keeping them from leaving.
That is indeed how this whole thing works. I used to work with several folks who were kicking around FAANG for 4 years till their acquisition stock fully vested
When you consider how much time/money it takes to hire an experienced engineer, and how quickly they are liable to jump to the competition, acquiring an existing team of experienced engineers and tying them with the golden handcuffs is not a bad deal
well... why not tie who's already inside the company (who you actually know about) instead of an external people (who you DON't know about)?
it's much difficult to get info about some external person, and most info is about external reputation ('the looks')
though... that's the reason job-ping-pongs work: someone outside looks better than someone inside, because of your lack of info
- We want to do more work on our runtime and need people to do it
- Those developers for that company over are there working on another runtime
- Buying that company allows them to come work for us without any potential issues from investors in that other company