[wulujia]

Even though we’re now 20 years old, we’ve always been a small company. Over the years, many colleagues have come and gone, and we currently have only 50 employees. Perhaps this is the reality of most startups - while many dream of going public, creating groundbreaking products, or being recognized globally, few achieve it. We can only do our best.

[mihaaly]

The difference sounds to be in the intents and focus. This sounds like focusing on making product for the people. Others may not. This may not be in the focus for others.

I was interviewing for a position at a startup in the alley of my profession a few years ago where my opening question was when my turn came: where do you see the company in 5 years?

- Sold!

Came the answer without a moment of hesitation. And that was it, the full answer.

Well, they got sold recently, I nod to that. But I did not want to become a salesman, so we wouldn't have get to an agreement even if the position was offered to me.

Getting to be stuck in a long running small organization that has the main purpose of getting big and be sold sounds a terrible life.

[ozim]

Being sold is not always bad.

Company I work for was sold by the owners mostly because they had huge fights.

We were bought by company that is in similar business but they were not good with tech so we are their „innovation” center instead of them spending years to build innovation from scratch.

We are still separate business unit and continue our thing but they get customers from their network to use our software.

Downside of course being a business unit we have to adjust to some of their stuff and our boss has to explain expenses and deal with all kind of red tape.

It is 3-4 years now since we were bought out and this year company will be 10 years.