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by zem 4819 days ago
spolsky's "ben & jerry's versus amazon" post is relevant. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html

as someone whose psychology is more aligned with the organic growth model, i fully agree with you, but if you lean the other way staying privately owned is just passing up the opportunity to get big fast.