Tdlr; he was "too honest" because he literally told the buyer that there was a similar company with better engineers - essentially that there was another compan

Tdlr; he was "too honest" because he literally told the buyer that there was a similar company with better engineers - essentially that there was another company which could do the same exact thing much better. So they bought the other company instead. Were the engineers objectively "better" than yours, or was there still something your company offered that the other did not? If the other company was essentially better, than you're lucky Yahoo didn't realize and you got that deal in the first place.