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What if Mark acquires you?

I will only sell to Megaupload.

It's my intention to build the company of my life and run the service forever. I hate the idea of a BigCo buying us, shutting down our service, and screwing over all the devs that trusted us. It would have to be a pretty ridiculous amount of money to make me sell out like that (in case you're listening Mark).

I believe that you truly hold this attitude now, but your response could literally be the preface for every "our incredible journey" post ever published.

Yeah, that's why this objection is pretty frustrating. No one will really believe me anyway so I don't get too worked up trying to convince people.

I think we just need build trust in the community. That takes time and I accept that.

Hi – Miguel here. That is totally valid point. I also think this objection stands true for every dependency of your technical infrastructure. This is the kind of decision you have to make, assessing the risks on a case by case basis. I believe no dependency is 100% safe. It can happen to any given service, from companies like Heroku, MixPanel or Segment to the smallest open source library you rely on.

Obviously I think the benefits of outsourcing your in-app subscriptions to us is well worth it, based on our experience and the engineering time you will be saving, but I might be biased :)

Hi Jacob :) Good to see you still building things. I love your optimism but this is something I've heard countless times that almost never holds true. Truth is you eventually get bored of a product after a few years and move on. It's not even always about the money. Also, you're playing in space where Apple could build their own and Sherlock you. I know a thing or two about that.

Hi Shane!

I've grown a lot since the AppLoop days. :)

As far as not losing motivation, I can't prove a negative, so I won't try.

We are not dead if Apple does something to make the system much better, the problem of multi-channel subscription management will still exist for our largest customers.

P.S. Hope L.A. treats you well. I have scooter envy.

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