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My friends and I have dealt with Facebook before in various capacities, and I can tell you that they play DIRTY, and if it comes down to it, they won't hesitate
by ThrowAwayFB11 9y ago
My friends and I have dealt with Facebook before in various capacities, and I can tell you that they play DIRTY, and if it comes down to it, they won't hesitate to use the aforementioned PATENTS license in their favor against you.
I know many stories like this; Facebook M&A meets with the founders of a promising company under the guise of a "we're about to acquire you" only to have Facebook copy their companies and then follow up with Facebook's lawyers knocking on said startups' doors to shut them down.
As such, I will not touch Facebook with a 10 foot pole, and I strongly recommend, from personal experience, that you do the same with your company.
- StreamBright 9y agoNot sure what do not touch means in this case.
- gtsteve 9y agoIt's not just Facebook - I've heard of other M&A teams working in a similar way. If you're considerably further ahead than them then they'll buy your company, otherwise they'll go for a clone strategy instead. Since I started looking into the M&A world I've learned you just can't take stuff like this too personally. Related: http://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html http://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html
- bigbugbag 9y agoIsn't this the usual way of the larger monopolistic corporations ? As they grow they lose their ability to innovate (if they had some in the first place) and rely on bullying, buying, copying, suing the little players out of existence.