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So now the monopolies are just hiring away all of the people they want from the startup and leaving the company as a shell of its former self - leaving both investors and the employees left behind high and dry.
Any evidence of that?
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So now the monopolies are just hiring away all of the people they want from the startup and leaving the company as a shell of its former self - leaving both investors and the employees left behind high and dry.
Any evidence of that?
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/01/more-details-emerge-on-how...
Amazon
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/13/big-techs-poaching-...
Microsoft and Inflection
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-ai-reverse-acqui-hire-150...
Microsoft almost pulled it off with OpenAI during the Altman fiasco.
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Any evidence of that?
Probably talking about character.ai and a few similar cases. It's not the trend GP is making it out to be.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/13/big-techs-poaching-...
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Yeah, I have heard that sentiment too. I've never heard so much as a second-hand anecdote that someone was on the track of an acquisition but got the vibe their 50 million dollar acquihire plus was going to just be too much trouble under an activist chairwoman though. It seems to me that the same weaponization of binary tribal thinking in red/blue social stuff has a corollary in "entrepeneur / commie" oversimplificat…
It just happened with Windsurf and Google.
There is another side to this coin: Figma's gain here is Adboe's loss. It doesn't make sense to use market-caps of specific companies as yardsticks of consumer welfare, which is the ultimate measure which antitrust actions seek to maximize. The tradeoffs of allowing or preventing the merger are more abstract and counterfactual. We cannot know for sure what the world in which Adobe successfully acquired Figma would lo…
We can’t know for sure whether increased competition is going to lead to a better outcome here, but we can say with a high level of certainty that more competition usually leads to better outcomes.
The fact that this also turned out to be fantastic for investors is just icing on the cake. Increased competition in markets is a worthy goal in itself.
So blocking a sale at a $20B valuation so the company can IPO at a $19.3B valuation 3 years later (a loss of $700M in value over 3 years) is a success?
Investors can feel free to hold onto their remaining shares and sell whenever they want, outside of a window following the IPO where they can’t.
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I think you're hitting the real divide here. Some people are so ideologically opposed to any regulatory intervention that they can't admit when it works, even when the evidence is staring them in the face. Also notable [0]: "[...] in any given year, we see up to 3,000 merger filings that get reported to us. Around 2% of those actually get a second look by the government, so you have 98% of all deals that, for the mos…
So now the monopolies are just hiring away all of the people they want from the startup and leaving the company as a shell of its former self - leaving both investors and the employees left behind high and dry.
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Any evidence of that?
Google and Windsurf https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/01/more-details-emerge-on-how... Amazon https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/13/big-techs-poaching-... Microsoft and Inflection https://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-ai-reverse-acqui-hire-150... Microsoft almost pulled it off with OpenAI during the Altman fiasco.
But blaming Lina Khan for the crime orgy that started the minute she was forced out is silly.
Go stick that blade where it belongs. I'll help any way I can.
I think the Figma IPO proves Khan was right. $60B market cap today vs the $20B Adobe offered in 2023. There was some criticism about regulatory overreach when the deal got blocked. Now Figma employees are rich, the design tools market stays competitive, and we have another major independent tech company instead of just another Adobe product line. This is exactly why we need regulators willing to tell Big Tech "no" so…
This is not obvious at all to me. Instagram (bought for $1B) is probably worth ~700 B of Meta's market cap.