Every single startup entrepreneur is secretly thinking "We will be on that list".
it's probably the other way around.
"The list will be on us"?
I just laughed for 30 seconds, to myself.
Perhaps, people who start startups are generally optimistic, but who wants to be "in lieu of hieing"?
I'd guess that there probably are more than a few startups that wouldn't mind having a steady paycheck and, ideally, a little left over cash from a small acquisition.