EQT (@eqtventures) Partner Kaushik Subramanian (@TheHolyKau) on why we've seen so many acqui-hires recently: "There are a number of companies, even in Europe, that have gotten acquired this year...at very, very early stages." "[These] prices that are not reflective of the revenue, but are perhaps reflective of the talent that those companies carry." "My hypothesis is that a lot of incumbent companies are sitting on a lot of cash, are worried about AI, and are not able to probably attract the…

Pedro Domingos@pmddomingos3d ago

If you start a neolab with the declared goal of solving AI and quickly get acquired for a few billion, you weren't serious to begin with. Maybe for truth in advertising you should have called it Acquihire Bait. https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/amd-will-acquire-fei-fei-lis-world-labs-for-8-2-billion/