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I bet the same has been said about VMware, GitHub and LinkedIn. They are all still doing pretty well today, last I checked. And they weren't acquisitions that required the acquiring company to get investors in to close the deal.


The long history of corporate acquisitions disagrees with you. Those are outliers, not the norm.




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