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> seemingly increased rate of consolidation of startups to established giants Do you have any data to support increased acquisition rate?

by bradhe 8y ago

dvtrn 8y ago
Not much by way of a published study if that's what you're after, just a supposition if I'm being completely honestly. Welcome to being wrong on this if some good soul does have the data on this, though. It's why I asked, maybe someone has research that would prove me wrong and I'll gladly take being corrected on the matter.
- seanp2k2 8y ago
  Yeah, I feel that way too. Like, every company whose products / services I liked that got acquired never released another interesting product or service. Dropcam is one that I can think of, nest is another which is related. Microsoft buying Wunderlist also seems like it’s only leading to Wunderlist getting shut down. CoreOS sold to RedHat and while I have my doubts, this sounds good: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/coreos-user/GR4YlF2c1dM https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/coreos-user/GR4YlF... (but don’t these kinds of messages always paint a rosy picture of the future?). We’ll see what happens to CoreOS. EDIT: just remembered WhatsApp. This happened recently: https://www.cnet.com/news/whatsapp-founders-may-have-left-1-3-billion-behind-in-their-facebook-breakup/ https://www.cnet.com/news/whatsapp-founders-may-have-left-1-... and it doesn’t seem like them selling did anything positive for their product or customers, only their bank accounts. Seems like they couldn’t even wait for FB to open up the golden handcuffs. Anyone have examples where the acquired company goes on to be really amazing, on a trajectory that they wouldn’t have had access to without the big injection of funding from the acquiring company? I can’t name any, but that doesn’t mean they’re not out there.
  - musiciangames 8y ago
    DOS did quite well after Microsoft acquired it.
  - bradhe 8y ago
    > Anyone have examples where the acquired company goes on to be really amazing, Instagram is a fairly high-profile example.

> seemingly increased rate of consolidation of startups to established giants Do you have any data to support increased acquisition rate?

by bradhe 8y ago

> seemingly increased rate of consolidation of startups to established giants Do you have any data to support increased acquisition rate?

dvtrn 8y ago

Not much by way of a published study if that's what you're after, just a supposition if I'm being completely honestly. Welcome to being wrong on this if some good soul does have the data on this, though. It's why I asked, maybe someone has research that would prove me wrong and I'll gladly take being corrected on the matter.

seanp2k2 8y ago
Yeah, I feel that way too. Like, every company whose products / services I liked that got acquired never released another interesting product or service. Dropcam is one that I can think of, nest is another which is related. Microsoft buying Wunderlist also seems like it’s only leading to Wunderlist getting shut down. CoreOS sold to RedHat and while I have my doubts, this sounds good: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/coreos-user/GR4YlF2c1dM https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/coreos-user/GR4YlF... (but don’t these kinds of messages always paint a rosy picture of the future?). We’ll see what happens to CoreOS. EDIT: just remembered WhatsApp. This happened recently: https://www.cnet.com/news/whatsapp-founders-may-have-left-1-3-billion-behind-in-their-facebook-breakup/ https://www.cnet.com/news/whatsapp-founders-may-have-left-1-... and it doesn’t seem like them selling did anything positive for their product or customers, only their bank accounts. Seems like they couldn’t even wait for FB to open up the golden handcuffs. Anyone have examples where the acquired company goes on to be really amazing, on a trajectory that they wouldn’t have had access to without the big injection of funding from the acquiring company? I can’t name any, but that doesn’t mean they’re not out there.
- musiciangames 8y ago
  DOS did quite well after Microsoft acquired it.
- bradhe 8y ago
  > Anyone have examples where the acquired company goes on to be really amazing, Instagram is a fairly high-profile example.