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> I met someone who was an early employee at King about a year after they were acquired for 5.9b - it’s a little different since he wasn’t involved with the sale, but he was still processing the insane amount of money he had

Is there a word missing in this? How did they join after acquisition and have a meaningful financial windfall? And being an early employee?

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It's very ambiguously phrased in multiple ways because I don't edit my HN posts, but it is technically correct, just vague! He was one of the first employees at King, and I met him a year after King was acquired. The "they" in "after they were acquired" is ambiguous which I think led to your confusion.

Linked from the above:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasis

They met a year after.

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