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Good points. Something I noticed after I read your comment: The funny thing about both Starbucks and McDonalds is that, in both cases, it took an outsider who

• netcan 16y ago
  I think the right way of reading it is to put consider the outsider the founder and otherwise consider their takeover as the founding. It would be like Bill Gates buying a 4 person company that made Basic interpreters instead of starting one, it's not fundamental to the story. If you looked at a graph of Starbucks and another startup going public at the same time the would look like this . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IPO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . / . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ./ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . / . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ../ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .founding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IPO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . / . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ./ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . / . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ../ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ./ founding----------------acquisition/ What happened between founding and acquisition in company #2 isn't really part of the story. The day after aquisition though is pretty much the same after the day of founding company #1.