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Two things:

1) Once you take VC money you probably can’t say no to an opportunity like this. It’s not entirely yours to say no anymore. Alternative is to retain control, but you don’t get the cash infusion and have to grow slower and more organically. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, just a different path.

2) This is not a baby, this is a commercial product. If someone offers me 20B for something I created I will happily accept it. What greater reward for my work and my vision to create a product than someone valuing it in millions/billions?




> If someone offers me 20B for something I created I will happily accept it.

I can’t say what will happen for real of course, but the knowledge that they’ll ruin what I spent years building would give me pause, I think.




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