alt Hacker News> 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
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ptaffs • today at 3:16 PM
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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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.