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0 pointsJumpCrisscross3mo ago0 comments

> Every employee is a flight risk if you don't pay them a competitive salary

Not relevant to acquihires, who typically aren’t hired away with promises of a salary but instead large signing bonuses, et cetera, and aren’t typically hired individually but as teams. (You can’t solve key man problems with compensation alone, despite what every CEO compensation committee will lead one to think.)

> that's just FUD

What does FUD mean in this context? I’m precisely relaying a personal anecdote.

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KK7NIL3mo ago

> aren’t hired away with promises of a salary but instead large signing bonuses

Now you're being nitpicky. Take the vesting period of the sign on bonus, divide the bonus amount by that and add it to the regular salary and you get the effective salary.

> aren’t typically hired individually but as teams.

So? VC bros seem to forget the labor market is also a free market as soon it hurts their cashout opportunity.

> What does FUD mean in this context? I’m precisely relaying a personal anecdote.

Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. Your anecdote is little more than a scare story. It can be summarized as: if you don't let us cashout this time, we'll hold this against you in some undefined future.

JumpCrisscrossOP3mo ago

> Now you're being nitpicky. Take the vesting period of the sign on bonus, divide the bonus amount by that and add it to the regular salary and you get the effective salary

These aren't the same things and nobody negotating and acquisition or acqhihire converts in this way. (I've done both.)

> Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. Your anecdote is little more than a scare story. It can be summarized as: if you don't let us cashout this time, we'll hold this against you in some undefined future

It's a personal anecdote. There shouldn't be any uncertainty about what I personally believe. I've literally negotiated acquihires. If you're getting a multimillion dollar payout, you shouldn't be particularly concerned about your standing in the next founding team unless you're a serial entrepreneur.

Broader online comment, invoking FUD seems like shorthand for objecting to something without knowing (or wanting to say) why.

raw_anon_11113mo ago

And the secretary, sales, project managers, etc who get left behind because the founders and key people were taken away? In an acquisition, they may still be let go. But they also would make money from their equity

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