>A startup made for the purpose of acquisition was never a competitor
You cannot get acquired unless you represent a percentage of market share, have IP which will lead to greater market share, and/or have employees who can expand market share for a product.
>A big whale company that gobbles up some of the fifty startups that only have like 2% of the market total is not a competitive market at all.
A big whale company performing that many M&As to little startups is essentially fueling future competitors. If I was an investor I would see that market as valuable for the unicorn breakthrough possibility or at least an eventual acquisition exit event.
My biggest complaint with gRPC is proto3 making all nested type fields optional while making primitives always present with default values. gRPC is contract based so it makes no sense to me that you can't require a field. This is especially painful from an ergonomics viewpoint. You have to null check every field with a non primitive type.
I just built a rig with new, top of the line, hardware and installed fedora on it without an issue. What components are you talking about specifically?
Mark lays it out pretty simply in the letter. People don't want surprise layoffs. They'd rather know ahead of time what leadership's planning. It's a tough pill to swallow but this is what a lot of people asked for.
Bazel is a great tool, but as mentioned in the article the support from Google is rather limited. If bazel ever got to the level Terraform is with providers it could really take off. Something I'd love to see is a .bazel_mod file where you could pull in other bazel workspaces (similar to go.mod) and reference packages within those workspaces.
You cannot get acquired unless you represent a percentage of market share, have IP which will lead to greater market share, and/or have employees who can expand market share for a product.
>A big whale company that gobbles up some of the fifty startups that only have like 2% of the market total is not a competitive market at all.
A big whale company performing that many M&As to little startups is essentially fueling future competitors. If I was an investor I would see that market as valuable for the unicorn breakthrough possibility or at least an eventual acquisition exit event.