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The price is interesting. An awful lot of the self-driving companies are hoping for a big acquisition. It reminds me of the SDN market just before VMware bought
by foobiekr 7y ago
The price is interesting. An awful lot of the self-driving companies are hoping for a big acquisition. It reminds me of the SDN market just before VMware bought Nicira. And there wasn’t a second Nicira, not really.
- erklik 7y agoThis wasn't really a acquisition though. More like Apple buying some assets as Drive.ai gets liquidated.
- foobiekr 7y agoThat distinction is mostly not real. Startups that are losing altitude start looking for an acquirer no less than 6 months before they know they’re done. The very likely ran the gamut of every acquirer they could get connected to. The case where companies run into the wall at full speed (a funding round fell through) mostly were very mismanaged.