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They can pay you lots of money to buy it off you, and then do what they want with it. Great for you, but (potentially) bad for all the prospective users. It als
by jcparkyn 4y ago
They can pay you lots of money to buy it off you, and then do what they want with it. Great for you, but (potentially) bad for all the prospective users. It also might be bad for all the users who would have kept using Google either way, since less competition allows Google to make a worse product (e.g., more ads).
- scarface74 4y agoWhy would a VC invest in a company if it knew its main avenue of getting a return was being cut off?
- jdub 4y agoThe return.
- jcparkyn 4y agoI'm not sure I follow. How does that relate to my comment?
- scarface74 4y agoThe hypothetical search engine isn’t going to exist without investors who are expecting a return.
- notpushkin 4y ago> They can pay you lots of money to buy it off you Only if you have investors that can force you to sell. I know that “just bootstrap your own search engine lol” is not an answer, but I do think there's some middle ground.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoIf you're actually a threat to them and still think so, it just means they haven't offered you enough money. They'll keep doubling the offer until you (or your family) starts to question whether sticking to your product vision is worth forgoing a once-in-a-lifetime option to literally win at life with a single signature.