> why? unless cloudflare's CEO is a friend of cloudflare people, so just want to financially them bail out...why acquire and kill?
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
If the talent wanted to work at Cloudflair, they'd apply there. Being acquired is a loss of agency and the project you care about is shut down. Several public research papers say retention is hard.
well I just don't get it -- why?
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
> why? unless cloudflare's CEO is a friend of cloudflare people, so just want to financially them bail out...why acquire and kill?
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
Aquihiring also requires the personnel hired to... actually stay with the company....
Unless you dangle HEFTY stock options with incremental maturity dates, nothing is else is keeping them from leaving.
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If the talent wanted to work at Cloudflair, they'd apply there. Being acquired is a loss of agency and the project you care about is shut down. Several public research papers say retention is hard.
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I assume the logic is something like this:
- 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