[hammock]

>I don't like how the power balance is, and the sort of "we made it!" vibe as if you finally impressed some diety enough to grace you with good fortune. I see the same kind of posts (oddly) about people who tried n times to get a job at google and finally they "made it". Like what are we doing?

Totally. It might be more fun to look at it as “we finally suckered them” (choose a less controversial word than suckered).

A similar dynamic shows up in the way startup founders are so eager to say “we’ve been acquired” rather than saying they sold a company