> If they all get strangled in their cribs progress slows. A founder exiting with millions isn't strangling anything. They aren't working to change the world,

> If they all get strangled in their cribs progress slows. A founder exiting with millions isn't strangling anything. They aren't working to change the world, they're working to make enough money to not have to. Those who want to change the world, like Zuck, wouldn't take the buyout offer because money wasn't the goal. Those who take the cash would have taken it whenever it was offered and left regardless, better to do it early and it's just wrong to say the company was strangled. > Imagine if Yahoo hadn't flubbed the acquisition of Google? You don't know that. For all you know, the combined money of Yahoo and talents of Google could have resulted in something better than what we ended up with. No one knows either way.