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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

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And a few teams of super talented, educated and bright entrepreneurs make a few mill. Many buying companies price these deals on the basis of $1 million per engineer on the team for an early-stage deal. Usually the location of the engineers matters great so having offshore engineering makes acquihires unlikely.

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Why I Don’t Celebrate Income Inequality

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Luckily many, not all, tech employees in Silicon Valley earn good wages as a result of educations from top schools that allowed them access to this talent market. With fewer shares in a company the price per share goes up and those that own stock in the company own a larger, usually more valuable stake. And they can buy back stock.

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