The same company recognized for setting delivered packages in a location visible to thieves is the company that owns another company selling you doorbells with cameras attached.
Brilliant. Because why instruct your delivery employees to hide, knock/ring a doorbell when you could sell your customers surveillance systems? Instead of us fixing the problem, let’s sell you something you’ll think fixes the problem.
But also, the bigger company sees that a smaller company is very likely to gain from the sales of products that solves the bigger companies problem. It just makes sense for the bigger company to try to buy the smaller one. The bigger company expects that it’ll get a higher return than the cost to acquire the smaller company. I’m sure heavy looking at the numbers was completed
A voice commanded Internet search told me Amazon acquired RING in year 2018.
That’s probably basic C-suite thinking.