Rob Ferretti, who runs a luxury and high performance car rental service has a podcast where he talked about this. He said a major US brand spent several months

Rob Ferretti, who runs a luxury and high performance car rental service has a podcast where he talked about this. He said a major US brand spent several months in talks to acquire the company then just walked away. He said they disclosed pretty much everything, since they had to prove they had revenue and were actually making money. A few months later they launched their own premium service.