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Large companies growing even larger by acquisitions, and this being the standard exit for startups, is not good for the world at large. It only leads to concentrating more and more power in large corporations, and reducing meaningful competition in the market.

A startup being attractive for an acquisition is also quite different from being attractive to clients and users, and therefore that’s an incentive structure that is worse for clients and users.

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Perhaps the government should make it a bit easier to go public, rather than restricting every other option. The SEC and FTC seem to be all-stick, no carrot.

[adabyron]

Large companies have great distribution channels that smaller companies can benefit from.

Large companies often get bloated & collapse as well. This has always kept me from being to concerned with them over the long term.