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Can't you get them to sign a contract before the brain rape starts that they pay close to acquisition sum when features resembling yours based on similar decisi

by bitL 3y ago

Can't you get them to sign a contract before the brain rape starts that they pay close to acquisition sum when features resembling yours based on similar decisions end up in their portfolio?

brookst 3y ago
Nobody would ever sign such a contract. Because the moment they did, the startup would declare that they were worth eleventy billion dollars. Pay up or you can never ship a competing product! If you really see acquisition diligence as rape, probably just stay out of business.
- bitL 3y ago
  There was some ancient startup wisdom summarized as "never talk to business development of other companies".
  - fakedang 3y ago
    https://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html https://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html
scarface74 3y ago
It’s funny that tech workers (rightfully) were up in arms when there was industry wide collusion over poaching each other’s employees and now they are complaining that big ole mean Apple is offering engineers twice their compensation. Not to mention I would (and do) take RSUs in a public company any day over statistically meaningless equity in a startup any day.