Seen it so many times as a customer of startups. “This is an awesome SaaS!” Then they sell it to BigCo, and less than a year later it is at best loosely integr

Seen it so many times as a customer of startups. “This is an awesome SaaS!” Then they sell it to BigCo, and less than a year later it is at best loosely integrated or worse sunset. Innovation and this form of capitalism is not a good match if we value innovation as a society. Probably that is also why we read so many comments saying “We did this 20 years ago with…” here when new tech is released. A long repeating cycle where only scraps of innovation is kept.