On the other hand, now you see companies that don’t want to deal with government blocking acquisitions do they just get all of the people they want from startups and leave the rest of the employees high and dry and the investors worse off.

https://www.reuters.com/business/google-hires-windsurf-ceo-r...

Unlike Figma, companies rarely want the startup’s product and usually end up either abandoning it or making it a part of their own offerings by getting their new hires to write it from scratch.

Even when they do need the acquiring companies IP, they license the IP and then poach the employees.

Microsoft almost did that too with OpenAI during the Altman fiasco.