When I got back to NYC I said to my boss (our CEO) "we should probably buy HashiCorp" and he said "Yeah, probably" and then we never spoke of it again. We both knew the problem, even if we could have got it together to make an offer and had they been interested, we were growing considerably too quickly to integrate another business. It was a fun idea, and we had a good time entertaining it, but it wouldn't have worked.
My shopping list during those years was NPM, Deis, Hashi and BitBalloon (now Netlify). These days: I generally think startups should do more M&A!