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No. If the portfolio company wants to be acquired by Google, then taking the network they get via GV certainly makes that route easier for them. If the portfo
by hobofan 8y ago
No.
If the portfolio company wants to be acquired by Google, then taking the network they get via GV certainly makes that route easier for them.
If the portfolio company decides if acquisition by another tech giant is the better route, they are free to do that and GV won't sabotage that deal. AFAIK there have been GV exits to all of the big Google competitiors.
- quietbritishjim 8y ago> Google acquiring Gitlab is very inevitable This means "Google is going to acquire GitLab". > If the portfolio company decides if acquisition by another tech giant is the better route, they are free to do that and GV won't sabotage that deal. To me, this reads as "Google might not acquire GitLab".
- hobofan 8y agoYeah, wow had a brainfart their. I thought about "unavoidable" every time I wrote inevitable.
- quietbritishjim 8y ago"Google acquiring Gitlab is very unavoidable" would also mean that Google IS going to acquire GitLab!
- hobofan 8y agoYeah... I think I should get off HN for the day :D
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- dragonwriter 8y agoExcept for the “No”, that whole description is consist with “not very inevitable”. “Inevitable” means “unavoidable", but what you've described is “possible, and maybe slightly more probable than if it wasn't a GV-backed firm, but by no means guaranteed.”