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mark-r on Jan 12, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't Talk to Corp Dev

It wasn't that the founder was a bad negotiator, he was just outsmarted. The agreed share price was tied to a metric that the acquirer understood much better than the founder.

etjossem on Jan 12, 2015 [–]

Either way, it's a weird thing for the acquiring CEO to boast about at an all-hands.

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