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wott on Sept 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The going rate for self-driving talent is $10M per...

> From the point of view of a buyer who spent $100M and got 10 engineers out of the deal, the cost was $10M/engineer

That's not even so: he didn't buy the engineers, they are not his property and they are free to walk away the day after, so he hardly got them. For a day, OK :-)

ci5er on Sept 18, 2016 [–]

Well, sure - you're right. They outlawed slavery; that's why they have lockup provisions.

In acquihire-land, that's the short-hand terminology that is often used. I'm sure there are more precise (and lengthy) ways to say the same thing.

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