Anyone who sells their company, perhaps they don’t really got “soul” in the game, as every person who has built or started a company knows, control is 1000000x more important than any billions of dollars you can own.

For example, am I the only one who recognizes that after the owner sold Whole Foods to Amazon, Whole Foods is starting to get a lot more ghetto and janky? Poor toilet hygiene and cleaning, no more fancy condiments etc. It feels like it’s just becoming another Walmart, although of course far nicer.

It also seems that the founder of What’s App deeply regretted doing so after the fact, even though the sale was in the billions.

Also apparently even the founders of Instagram got slowly pushed out of the company after selling to Facebook. When instagram first started it was a great platform for photographers but now, it’s just kind of a “lifestyle” shitshow.