Their teams of engineers stayed on, making them two of the many "acqui-hires" that the biggest companies have used to feed their great hunger for tech talent.

他们的工程师团队留下来了，使他们成为“人才并购”中的两名成员。大公司就是用人才并购手段来满足对技术人才的巨大需求的。

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These are called "talent acquisitions" or "acqui-hires."

这被称为“人才并购”或者“获取式聘用”。

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Already, in the Valley, you will find entrepreneurs with a very clear sense of how acqui-hiring valuation is done in various sectors.

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Acqui-hiring is only a problem if you are attached to specific labels.

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You could say the smaller angel investors in particular, are effectively the new outsourced middle managers for big companies in the acqui-hiring market.

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