Selling Startups Debate
The cluster centers on debates about whether startup founders should sell their companies, particularly if profitable or highly valued, questioning motivations, regrets, alternatives like growth or bootstrapping, and investor pressures.
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If a startup is making money, why sell?
Why would you want to sell it instead of making your startup grow?
You just don't. Choose randomly and then try to quickly sell the company. /s
If your company is worth $3.9B why would you sell it? I can dream on how I could make the next-best product, but I don't dream about selling it.Maybe I'm missing business 101, why would you want to give up some your large diamond to some other company?
Why would you start a business with the end goal of selling it?
How about he sell the company and move on?
Anyone else note the different mentalities between seeking more capital and outright selling the company?
Build a company to sell it to a big player and get $$$$$.
Has anyone sold their company, then regretted it from a time investment standpoint?
You sell something for billions of dollars to a giant entity who makes money by selling user data, you should realize they will want to make money to pay for those billions. Most of the time such a purchase results in the original founders departing. You may as well leave at first opportunity. You can always build something else, now with your own money.