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potato3732842today at 1:57 PM1 replyview on HN

That's what happens when the likely success scenario is selling out to an existing company rather than growing to be a genuinely large and long lived company.


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nine_ktoday at 4:41 PM

There are beef companies and milk companies, depending on the way they plan to use their cash cow.

(Most VC funding is used to quickly produce a beefy market share, and sell it to those who think they can milk it, or to profitably butcher it.)

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