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Misjudged? Not necessarily. While getting acquired is cool for the founders, getting acquired so early is usually not in YC's interest and I doubt they'd have
by zaidf 17y ago
Misjudged? Not necessarily.
While getting acquired is cool for the founders, getting acquired so early is usually not in YC's interest and I doubt they'd have too much regret over (what is likely) a super-small acquisition.
- Kaizyn 17y agoYC may also suffer from an embarrassment of riches, where they have more good startups than they have resources to fund.
- jhancock 17y agoNot sure that is in any way a failure or suffering. I think its a great success. Look at MIT's move to give away its courseware online. They don't think it will hurt them in the foreseeable future. Is MIT losing out by not solving the problem of expanding the number of paying students they can take in? They don't think so.
- create_account 17y agoSour grapes
- zaidf 17y agoMay be you can elaborate.
- wensing 17y agoNot saying I agree with the 'misjudged' comment, but it seems baseless to think that raffi couldn't have held out for more, later.