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by riazrizvi 1555 days ago
Does this mean that DigitalOcean has become another platform company that is monitoring their customers’ business performance for possible acquisition?

If so beware.

2 comments

it wasn't even hosted on DigitalOcean...
Yeah I guess the acquisition strategy example here is that DigitalOcean is probably monitoring what services their customers that have inflections in traction. Customers won’t care if web services are not their core service. Web service providers can’t really do much about it.
Why beware? If you're not forced to sell and they offer you an option, it seems like a net benefit.
Because your bargaining position is weak, and how do you know your data isn’t being used to help some competitor that is part owned by the platform company.