> It used to be that everyone would dream of making a startup that big tech would acquihire.
> It’s so tame, so complicit. Hackerdom is now mostly about obscene levels of money and status?
The goal of many who make a startup that big tech would acquihire _is_ about achieving obscene levels of money and status. If they're acquihiring you then by definition you no longer have full say about what the business does. If it really was about making something, the best something you can, then you would resist being acquihired.
> It’s so tame, so complicit. Hackerdom is now mostly about obscene levels of money and status?
The goal of many who make a startup that big tech would acquihire _is_ about achieving obscene levels of money and status. If they're acquihiring you then by definition you no longer have full say about what the business does. If it really was about making something, the best something you can, then you would resist being acquihired.
You move to get acquihired to get paid.