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3rd January 2020 - Link Blog

How the Digg team was acquihired. (via) Useful insight into how a talent acquisition can play out from Will Larson, who was an engineering leader at Digg when they negotiated their acquihire exit.

Posted 3rd January 2020 at 2:27 am

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