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"Of course, if you look too disruptive they'll probably just buy you with their mountain of cash."

Woe! :P

Unless they decline the offer, like Facebook did and Google did and almost every current big company did at some point. If you are wildly successful there WILL be that option in front of you at some point.

Who offered to acquire google?

Google offered themselves to Excite, also Yahoo.

Woe to the people working for you, at least.

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