"At the moment, there is no one within big companies who gets in trouble when they buy a startup for $200 million that they could have bought earlier for $20 mi

"At the moment, there is no one within big companies who gets in trouble when they buy a startup for $200 million that they could have bought earlier for $20 million" this comment is amusing although i do believe he is being facetious. i am of the opinion that everyone in a company should have an eye out for innovation that is relevant to the company and should call it upon themself to escalate an emerging "acquisition worthy" startup to the attention of the powers that be. and of course let it fall upon their heads if they fail to take action. it would show how well communication flows in your company as to how agile you are in making these kinds of acquisitions. a company that did it well would be fearfully predatorial indeed