When you manage to get enough of an important market that some giant company purchases your company, expecting it will help them make money in some way, it does

When you manage to get enough of an important market that some giant company purchases your company, expecting it will help them make money in some way, it doesn't matter so much if you're profitable up to that point. If Google, Microsoft, Apple or one of the smaller companies that are still huge decide they want to counter FB comments with their own offering, Disqus would be the #1 apparent acquisition.