[kirso]

Precisely this, I feel like the only middle-ground here is not to sell your company to corporate overlords, we learned that lesson with many other companies.

Stay profitable, stay calm, stay mediocre in size => delight customers.

Greed & corporate min/maxing has failed us.

[SQueeeeeL]

Simon Sinek has a really good point in his book "Start With Why" that basically says selling your company is a complete failure, because you basically lose your autonomy and ability to adapt to unique market conditions that let companies be successful in the first place.

[cercatrova]

If you sell your company, presumably you don't care about its future success anymore and now you have a bunch of money with which you can do whatever you want.

[kirso]

Partially yes, your incentives change and skin in the game as well