Is it just me or the acquisition amounts decreasing? Soundcloud - $500M potential buyout Trello - $425M I'm not aware of any other. All those 10,000 startups

Is it just me or the acquisition amounts decreasing? Soundcloud - $500M potential buyout Trello - $425M I'm not aware of any other. All those 10,000 startups world wide and only a couple gets bought out few IPO. The chances of a payout doing a VC funded startup is marginally slim despite what PG wrote in his articles nearly 10+ years ago. Coupled with rising interest rates, it seems like the ride is coming to a slow crawl but this is just my gut feeling. There's no better time to bootstrap than ever. Control your own company with no outside influences. You don't need billions of dollars. If you can double your day job salary with a SaaS then I think that's a huge success. Here's to a happy & successful 2017 for the rest of us bootstrappers on HN.