If I were to imagine the M&A road map at Facebook circa 2012, it speculatively may have looked something like this: Hiring M&A. Facebook needs to build out its mobile team, and is being pressured by Wall Street to increase its ad business. Therefore, we should buy teams of 3–10 people with strong backgrounds in (1) mobile engineering/product/design or (2) advertising products. Teams will be broken up and added to the areas of greatest hiring need. We should also buy machine learning or data science heavy teams as we can not hire enough of them. Product M&A. Buy Snaptu to enable mobile clients
...more
