If one of your potential exit strategies is acquisition, patenting your technology makes sense. Even if he's right that a startup can't afford to defend it's pa

If one of your potential exit strategies is acquisition, patenting your technology makes sense. Even if he's right that a startup can't afford to defend it's patents, if Amazon/Facebook/Google/Apple acquires you your startup is potentially 10x more valuable to them because they can definitely afford to defend the patent.