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by supersync 1256 days ago
What’s sobering is even a prescient leader like Butterfield was snowed despite that clear evidence.

I tell everyone founder - acquisition is the death of everything you worked for. Acquisitions teams are sales teams with 0 follow on accountability, structure, or goals. They are quite literally there to tell you what you want to hear & get you to believe it’s true. With maybe the exception of Microsoft, it’s not.