You mean 2 Billion Dollars. That's a number beyond greed. That means you are taking care of you, your family, and your employees. Everyone can take the moral high road but if you were staring at a contract like that, could you really say you would turn it down?
You also have no idea of the terms. For all we know Oculus will still act as an independent agency only with better access to talent, much more capital access, and a huge advertising method-facebook itself!
Or they are devoured by facebook and never see the light of day. Either way, it's 2 billion dollars and all the financial freedom that comes with having that much money.
(Yes I know most of it's in stocks, but unlike everyone else I don't think people realize, facebook isn't going away in the next few years, they are a microsoft-a lumbering giant branching out through tech acquisitions).
> facebook isn't going away in the next few years, they are a microsoft
That was kind of my point. To quote a message I've posted before: Facebook is the new Microsoft, basically. Low on creativity and innovation, high on cash, riding to success a huge wave of demand that would have carried anybody else who just happened to be there at the right time.
So now you're the Oculus guys, and you're thinking "do I really want to be bought by this kind of entity?" The cash sure is nice, as you pointed out, but the nature of the puppet master is also important.