Founding a company with this in mind seems foolish. If you only have one likely acquirer, that's worse for you. If you're building a feature that depends on th

Founding a company with this in mind seems foolish. If you only have one likely acquirer, that's worse for you. If you're building a feature that depends on that acquirer, they will kill you off if you get big (see Twitter and other data suppliers.) So you're choosing a startup idea which can be lowballed on the offer (only one acquirer) if they like it, and you can't get big and succeed on your own. This looks great for big companies -- free R&D if the idea was bad. It looks awful for most founders.