Thursday, August 2, 2012

Facebook Told Me To Sell My Business To Them Or Be Destroyed, And I Said Stuff It

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An app developer named Dalton Caldwell has written an acerbic open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The letter is about how Caldwell was called into Facebook to meet with a group of executives, and how these executives told Caldwell that his startup was competitve with a Facebook product, and that he should therefore sell it to Facebook or face destruction.

Caldwell says he rejected the offer. "I was not interested in an acqui-hire."

"I said that if Facebook wanted to have a serious conversation about acquiring my team and product, I would entertain the idea. Otherwise, I had zero interest in seeing my product shut down and joining Facebook. I told your team I would rather reboot my company than go down that route."

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