Acquihire

Quick meaning: Acquihire is a verb meaning (business slang) An acquisition of a company to recruit its employees, rather than for its products or services.

Meaning

(business slang) An acquisition of a company to recruit its employees, rather than for its products or services.

More Meanings

1. (business slang, transitive) To acquire a company, in particular a small startup, to recruit its employees, rather than for its products or services.

Example Sentences

There are a lot of really excellent founders pursuing consumer ideas that just never work -- that's why companies like Yahoo and Google and others can do so many acquihires.

Then, in August, they bought Push Pop press, which was seen as an acquihire of designers Kimon Tsinteris and Mike Matas, who designed several of key pieces of the iPhone interface.

“Tarek was an acquihired founder like you. He turned out to be so awesome, I made him co-head of one of Phluttr's biggest projects! But that's rare. I usually look to guys like you and him to start something new. You're entrepreneurs, after all![…]”

Word Forms

• acquihires
• acquihiring
• acquihired
• acqhire
• acq-hire
• acquhire
• acqu-hire
• acqui-hire

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hire, recruit, employ, retain, procure, acquire.

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