An interesting account of an acquihire by @Lethain : https://lethain.com//digg-acquihire/ …
One of the things I love about people sharing about these sort of rare experiences is it decreases the necessity to have someone who has Been There Done That walk you through the 102 level basics.
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There are a *lot* of geeks of my acquaintance who have made suboptimal career/business decisions simply because they were coming at a nuanced, detail-rich topic/transaction/etc for the first time, did not have the right person in their network, and ended up YOLOing it.
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Interestingly a lot of the traditional answers for "Who is the right person?" are disastrously wrong. For example, you might think "Ah, I am going into a high-dollar transaction in Silicon Valley. I should get a lawyer." *Almost all lawyers* are not going to be effective for you.
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It's also really difficult to evaluate expertise, because substantially all comments on e.g. Hacker News about raising a Series A round look the same. Some of them have rather little entanglement with reality. Some are from world's leading practitioners (from multiple angles).
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