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As a Redditor said: > The standard VC business model is to invest in stuff that FAANG will buy from them one day. The standard approach is to invest in stuff t
by belmont_sup 1y ago
As a Redditor said:
> The standard VC business model is to invest in stuff that FAANG will buy from them one day. The standard approach is to invest in stuff that's enough of a threat to FAANG that they'll buy it to kill it, but this seems more like they're gambling on an acqui-hire in the future.
- ipsum2 1y agoI have never seen a FAANG company buy a pure programming-language based tooling startup.
- tjalfi 1y agoFacebook acquired Monoidics in 2013; they were the startup that created Infer[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infer_Static_Analyzer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infer_Static_Analyzer
- guappa 1y agoWhy would they do that when they can just fork for free?
- noisy_boy 1y agoThey also get a shot at the engineers who wrote the product.