lots of noise about privy getting acquired by stripe, but i totally missed that web3auth got acquired by consensys/metamask: https://blog.web3auth.io/web3auth-is-now-part-of-consensys/

(not to mention that infura is merged under metamask now too, metamask is the google+ of consensys)

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Ah... OK. Then I think this is accurate, although to be fair then entire history of consensys is about moving people around in haphazard ways.

google+ as in the org that was given a mandate and carte blanche to scale at all costs and ended up absorbing most of google products before it became clear that this was a mistake, then google spent most of the next decade untangling the resulting mess