SaaS taken VC funding? Do not touch them if you will rely on their service because they might suddenly disappear in an acquihire and you should have expected it, ingrate. [1]
it is Sound advice, although if everyone took it to heart none of these start-ups would succeed in the first place because no one would use them because of the expectation they will be gone shortly. [1]
Poisoning the well of goodwill for future start-ups.
[1] Unless you can get a contract for X months / years of service as detailed by patio above... I cannot remember this as an option by any of the SaaSs that feature on YC. They try to be low friction "Just put your credit card details in, pay monthly and ignore the elephant." They RELY on people ignoring the above.
You sound shocked, shocked to have thought of the most common sales objection in the history of startups. Sell any product to a real business and see how long it takes that concern to come up. Memetically, it predates "acquihires" by more than 15 years.
There exist companies funded by YC which have enterprise pricing available. All of them will guarantee services being available for the entire contractual term, subject to the usual. (Contracts, paying shedloads of money, etc.)
Or they were subsidizing the service with their talent that could have been more productively used elsewhere. People who don't understand this just don't understand business.
Even great HN heroes like Elon Musk (who sold paypal to ebay) aren't doing stuff for charity, they are doing it for profit. Sometimes a personal crusade makes straight monetary profit less important, but most of the time it doesn't.
SaaS taken VC funding? Do not touch them if you will rely on their service because they might suddenly disappear in an acquihire and you should have expected it, ingrate. [1]
it is Sound advice, although if everyone took it to heart none of these start-ups would succeed in the first place because no one would use them because of the expectation they will be gone shortly. [1]
Poisoning the well of goodwill for future start-ups.
[1] Unless you can get a contract for X months / years of service as detailed by patio above... I cannot remember this as an option by any of the SaaSs that feature on YC. They try to be low friction "Just put your credit card details in, pay monthly and ignore the elephant." They RELY on people ignoring the above.