From 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

From 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.