[thothamon]

Does this article actually have a specific message? I read the whole thing and it sounds something like "businesses will exploit you." (True, but duh.) Or maybe "startups are trying to be acquired." (Sometimes true, sometimes false.)

I'm not even sure she has a specific meaning for the word "startup," or that her usage means the same thing that most other people mean by that term.

Most people want most things as a means to an end, so it's hard for me to see how using product sales/adoption as a driver toward being an attractive acquisition is unusual, surprising or crazy; but either way, not every startup wants to be acquired, and not every startup is trying to drive toward that end. One of the many "facts" in the article that are not facts.