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0 pointsTomMarius6y ago0 comments

The founders obviously wanted to exit

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everyone wants to exit, the only question is how many zeroes it'll take for you to admit it. If I offered you a billion dollars for 100% of your startup today, would you really actually not exit?

what's the old saw? "now we're just haggling over the price"...

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/07/haggling/

bordercases6y ago

Then how do we realign capital to stop keeping large loss-running companies or now slow-growing companies on life support so that basic innovations can still penetrate the market?

IIRC Zuckerberg had the option to relinquish control of his company but other than taking that sweet sweet In-Q-Tel dollar still did his best to stay at the helm.

nicoburns6y ago

Agressively tax large organisations. There'd be a cost to that, but as this comment chain is discussing, there's also a cost to leaving them with the money and allowing them to use it to stifle innovation.

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nraynaud6y ago

And in the end all those big companies become banks.

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