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Congratulations to the lightbox guys. This is what every start-up aspires to do!
by xpose2000 14y ago
Congratulations to the lightbox guys. This is what every start-up aspires to do!
- pirateking 14y agoIf by "start-up" you mean "sell-out", then yes.
- k-mcgrady 14y agoWhat's the big deal with selling your business? If they don't see a lot of growth in their future then the best way to make a profit and pay back the investors is to sell. If you start a company with the goal of never selling to a larger company it would be much harder to get investment and you have a much greater chance of failing.
- ceejayoz 14y agoNothing's wrong with it. We're just disagreeing with the statement that sell-and-shut-down is what every startup aspires to.
- ceejayoz 14y agoI really, really doubt the folks at Square are sitting around aspiring to being bought and shut down by Facebook.
- Domenic_S 14y agoMoney doesn't matter to a payments company? Hmm... There's always a price.
- ceejayoz 14y ago> Money doesn't matter to a payments company? Hmm... Thanks for that non sequitur. Where on earth did you get the impression that I was arguing money doesn't matter to Square?
- Domenic_S 14y agoFrom your saying they don't aspire to be bought. Perhaps they don't aspire to be bought, in that there is no "go get acquired" in their mission statement. But when the GP said that Lightbox achieved "what every startup aspires to" I took that to mean a cashout or working on something even bigger, or perhaps "success" generally.
- ceejayoz 14y agoI very much doubt Square aspires to be bought. I suspect they aspire to being so successful they get too big for anyone to even consider buying them.
- benatkin 14y agoI think this comment is sarcastic.