[brk]

Honestly, yeah, you probably don't understand how the game is played if that is a legitimate question.

There seems to be a wave a social-related acquisitions going around. If you have a product that can be virally shared, or produces rankings or scores that people get caught up in competing for, you could be a potential acquisition target.

I think a lot of people on HN focus on solving real problems and making the world "better", which is certainly a wonderful endeavor. But that's not the path to mind-numbingly high acquisitions most of the time.