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corporate dating where one party always swallows the other whole
means The act of acquiring something — a skill, an asset, or, in business, an entire company bought and absorbed.
from From Latin acquisitio, the noun built on acquirere 'to get in addition,' itself a marriage of ad- 'to, toward' and quaerere 'to seek, to ask.' So at its root it means a seeking-toward — the quiet hunger to add. The same quaerere also fathered query, quest, and inquire; acquisition is simply the one that succeeded in actually grabbing what it went looking for. English took it in through French in the late Middle Ages.
- failure rate
- most destroy value rather than create it
- acqui-hire
- buying a company just to hire its people
- culture clash
- merged teams sink deals more than spreadsheets do
- poison pill
- defense that makes a takeover painfully expensive
- due diligence
- frantic snooping before you spend billions
elon musk buys twitter — musk acquired twitter for $44 billion in october 2022, rebranding it to x
facebook acquires instagram — facebook bought instagram for $1 billion in 2012, now worth over $100 billion