It'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, o

It'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