> Most acquisitions happen due to an acquirer wanting one of three assets: your team, your product, or your revenue. And if you’re lucky, all three. I might be

> Most acquisitions happen due to an acquirer wanting one of three assets: your team, your product, or your revenue. And if you’re lucky, all three. I might be alone on this (I don’t see it mentioned often) but I think I’d consider it very lucky if they only wanted 2 of those 3. A huge part of why I started a company in the first place is to not work for someone else, and selling myself back into a job seems like the opposite of a win! It doesn’t seem very common for sales to happen without the founder sticking around though. I’ve assumed this is because buyers do in fact mostly want the founder as an employee, and either aren’t willing to do the deal without that, or the offer is so much lower that it’s not worth selling.