Were all 53 Yahoo Acquisitions purely for talent hires?
It’s a very common trend in the tech world to buy companies not for the actual company, but for the talented engineers behind the company. After Yahoo bought 53 companies last year and has shut down a majority, you begin to wonder if that was the case here as well.
I’d imagine that even though Yahoo is a massive company with thousands of engineers you can imagine that a company of this size with millions + millions of lines of code may not be the number one place to apply for a job.
Gizmodo compiled a list, Here’s What Happened To All 53 of Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo Acquisitions.
The worst part about this is that the hired talent all tend to leave Yahoo as soon as their deal is over. Gizmodo has a more in depth write up about each company but the summary is as follows.
1. October 2012: Stamped – Shut Down
2. December 2012: OnTheAir – Shut Down
3. January 2013: Snip.it – Shut Down
4. February 2013: Alike – Shut Down
5. March 2013: Jybe – Shut Down
6. March 2013: Summly – Shut Down
7. May 2013: Astrid – Shut Down
8. & 9. May 2013: GoPollGo and Milewise – Shut Down
10. June 2013: Rondee – Shut Down
11. July 2013: Qwiki – Shut Down
12. July 2013: Xobni – Shut Down
13. July 2013: Ztelic – Shut Down
14. August 2013: RockMelt – Shut Down
15. August 2013: IQ Engines – Shut Down
16. October 2013: LookFlow – Shut Down
17. October 2013: Bread – Shut Down
18. December 2013: Ptch – Shut Down
19. December 2013: EvntLive – Shut Down
20. December 2013: Quik.io – Shut Down
21. December 2013: SkyPhrase – Shut Down
22. December 2013: PeerCDN – Shut Down
23. January 2014: Sparq – Shut Down
24. January 2014: Cloud Party – Shut Down
25. January 2014: Incredible Labs – Shut Down
26. February 2014: Distill – Shut Down
27. March 2014: Vizify – Shut Down
28. May 2014: Blink – Shut Down
29. August 2014: ClarityRay – Shut Down
30. August 2014: Zofari – Shut Down
31. September 2014: Luminate – Shut Down
32. September 2014: Bookpad – Shut Down
33. October 2014: MessageMe – Shut Down
34. May 2013: Loki Studios – Shut Down
35. June 2013: Ghostbird Software – Shut Down
36. July 2013: Bignoggins Productions – Shut Down
37. October 2013: Hitpost – Shut Down
38. January 2014: Tomfoolery – Shut Down
39. June 2014: Photoful and PhotoDrive – Shut Down
40. July 2014: RayV – Shut Down
41. November 2014: Cooliris – Shut Down
Wow.