[newbie789]

Fair enough. Instead of signing a big check for an incredibly valuable domain, Benioff transferred the incredibly valuable domain from his personal possession to the company.

I’m not personally of the opinion that this is an important enough distinction to avoid talking about my larger point of “This is an expensive endeavor and there is no reason to believe that there is any barrier preventing an exit that involves compromising in the event that Marc Benioff or the other investors at some point want their money back.”

Even if the domain was “free”, the rest of the endeavor is incredibly costly. I’m not really filled with confidence that the founder here either straight up didn’t understand the spirit of my point, or found it advantageous to feign ignorance about this.

[richardsocher]

I will try to build a large company based on our values of trust, facts and kindness. My goal is not to get acquired in order to "wash my hands"...

[bryans]

Except you've almost exclusively sown distrust and treated this community like we're incompetent. It's beyond disturbing that you believe it's appropriate to gaslight the entire startup community during your product announcement. That's not kind, nor trustworthy, and your "facts" have been entirely wrong.

> My goal is not to get acquired in order to "wash my hands"...

Also, extremely interesting choice of words here. You didn't say you're not aiming to get acquired, you just said that when you do get acquired it won't be for the reasons we all think, which is just more gaslighting and doesn't actually address any of the concerns.