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Alternatively, it would just cause small companies and startups to never innovate, because they know that they can't make money off of it by selling to a bigger
by stale2002 7y ago
Alternatively, it would just cause small companies and startups to never innovate, because they know that they can't make money off of it by selling to a bigger company.
- icebraining 7y agoBig companies aren't charities, they only buy startups because they expect it will make them money. Why wouldn't they make money by remaining independent?
- stale2002 7y agoBecause sometimes a technology in and of itself is not profitable, and is instead only profitable to specific large companies that would purchase them. There are tons of reasons why it would make sense to purchase a company, that would never be profitable on its own.