Stone also describes how, before the acquisition, Amazon announced the launch of a competitive service while Lore and Bharara were visiting Amazon so their empl

Stone also describes how, before the acquisition, Amazon announced the launch of a competitive service while Lore and Bharara were visiting Amazon so their employees wouldn’t be able to reach them to figure out how best to react. That whole process sounds pretty toxic. This is happening while they're trying to negotiate a deal? If I were them I would have walked, but I gather they really wanted to sell the company and move on to something else.