[arrowgunz]

>I don’t want Instapaper to shut down, I don’t want to move my family across the country, and they didn’t want to pay enough

So if Marco was paid enough, would he let big companies shut down Instapaper by acquiring it?

[petercooper]

While there are certainly people who would refuse to sell at any price (Zuckerberg was probably in this camp), I suspect the vast majority of people (even 100% ethical, moral, up-standing folks) have a price.

Would I sell my business for $100m tomorrow even if the whole thing got destroyed in the process? I sure would (though I'd use the money to start a new one ;-)).

[vtry]

100 million dollars!