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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 Gat
by 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
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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.