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gedyyesterday at 3:21 PM4 repliesview on HN

Not to be cynical but that's said a lot in acquisitions by bigger companies to motivate some people to stay, but just doesn't seem to happen.


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embedding-shapeyesterday at 3:37 PM

And even if there is a 20% of executives actually believe in "We should learn from HashiCorp", usually not even that is enough to counter-act the default mode of operation which is squeezing customers. GLHF to remaining HashiCorp believers, but personally I'd try to find alternatives for the software you use from them if you haven't already.

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everfrustratedyesterday at 3:44 PM

Usually the internal stakeholder that made the case to acquire the business leaves/gets promoted and new managers come in and start the assimilation process.

ljmyesterday at 8:49 PM

For every incredible journey there is an equal and opposite lesson to be learned

jerlamyesterday at 5:28 PM

And in two years, the acquired management team all leaves like clockwork because they got their retention bonus.