The top paragraph is really good advice that I would have appreciated back in the day we were starting up (at my former startup). In the end, in the name of "a

The top paragraph is really good advice that I would have appreciated back in the day we were starting up (at my former startup). In the end, in the name of "aligning our interests", they forced us to work exclusively with them, follow their protocols and nothing else, work on a single code base, etc. In the end, everyone was just so frustrated, we decided to ditch it to them instead at a less than stellar expected valuation.