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The acquisition by Google happened 18 months into YouTubes existence. It's been 18 years since then. I don't know if you really recall what a site was like 18 years ago. Besides that, what Google provided was hosting infrastructure and legal protection. Otherwise they would have been sued into nothing and couldn't have afforded to serve video.
Honestly I did not realize that acquisition happened so early in YT’s existence. That’s on me I suppose.
Aaa Europe because it's cheaper to hire engineers is it?
And because that’s where those who bought Evernote have always been located. Why bother with maintaining a US office, and the associated admin work?
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Apple/NeXT
NeXT acquired Apple
There's a massive population of software developers that don't care about software, don't have a passion for the problem solving, don't feel accomplishment when they ship something. They just got into the business because of the money and the hype. These people will never amount to much and will cost companies lots of opportunity cost money. It makes sense to not pay Bay Area salaries for these people and to go pay p…
These comments are getting worse than reddit... What does Evernote even need staff for, it's a super basic paid note platform, anything opensource is loads better
We're stagnating so hard that we rightfully have earned the slur Europoor. Even Indian expats are puzzled by the state of things. We can't even afford ACs.
Hence we will become the new underdeveloped region to develop (or operate) your less exciting software. Might become big as the age of free capital in SV is over, costs matter again.
I'm all for it. But not now, typing this from my 4 week holiday.
My mother was a banker. She asked a hypothetical question of me, 30 years ago, that I've never been able to answer: "Name for me one company that was better, for the customer or the employees, after a merger."
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Mercedes/Benz?
Why do you think this was a merger or an acquisition?
The reason I think it was a merger is, that it was a merger.
"The first Mercedes-Benz branded vehicles were produced in 1926, following the merger of Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler's companies into the Daimler-Benz company on 28 June of the same year."
Mercedes was a car name from the Daimlers side of the merger (from a car seller and racing team) - so it was Mercedes-Benz.