Both founders and VCs deal with a lot of risk, but in doing so, they have the potential for high reward. If the money (the and post-acquisition gameplan) are agreeable to the founders, are they too not "real winners"?
In being acquired, the founders are exchanging a potentially long-term successful business for near-term security and presumably good money. Perhaps the founders wanted to spend more time on their product and less time on their business...Different people have different motivations, and money is by no means the only determining factor of whether one is a "real winner".
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Both founders and VCs deal with a lot of risk, but in doing so, they have the potential for high reward. If the money (the and post-acquisition gameplan) are agreeable to the founders, are they too not "real winners"?
In being acquired, the founders are exchanging a potentially long-term successful business for near-term security and presumably good money. Perhaps the founders wanted to spend more time on their product and less time on their business...Different people have different motivations, and money is by no means the only determining factor of whether one is a "real winner".