What happens after buying a startup?
So a big and well-known company buys you. For most startups, this is the only option for a successful exit. Becoming an independent, profitable in the long term, the company is much more difficult.
So what will happen next?
1) The founders of the company will leave, for them the story has already ended. Not for this they made a new company in order to once again become part of a large car and have a boss. For the next year or two, they will be doing just enough to go through the lockdown period and think about what to do next.
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2) You will be asked to integrate into all the spread services of the new company. Nobody knows why this is necessary, but integration is the first idea lying on the surface. No wonder we bought them, let them be everywhere.
3) Of course, you will conduct a new audit of the entire code and architecture. It turns out that everything is just awful for you and cannot work. Everything needs to be rewritten urgently, as is customary in the new company and urgently.
4) Local engineers hate you. They still cannot understand how the company could pay N-millions for your crap, and they are refused to raise the pay and bonuses by a couple of hundred. Do not think that you will quickly and easily find a common language with them.
5) Your previous brand is not completely associated with the image of a new company. Therefore, you need to attach to the existing backward product, which has everything in its image. Only almost no one uses it.
6) In order to release a new release, you will now need to get a bunch of permissions. New leadership, leadership of your leadership, lawyers, security guards, marketers, etc. None of them really understand what you are doing and will delay the release, just not wanting to understand a new product for them.
You can relax and forget about new features in the product, experiments, releases once a month. Your “unlucky” competitors who have not bought have dramatically increased the pace and bypass you as standing still.
Sooner or later, your products will be closed and you will work on the right and necessary projects in the company.
So what will happen next?
1) The founders of the company will leave, for them the story has already ended. Not for this they made a new company in order to once again become part of a large car and have a boss. For the next year or two, they will be doing just enough to go through the lockdown period and think about what to do next.
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2) You will be asked to integrate into all the spread services of the new company. Nobody knows why this is necessary, but integration is the first idea lying on the surface. No wonder we bought them, let them be everywhere.
3) Of course, you will conduct a new audit of the entire code and architecture. It turns out that everything is just awful for you and cannot work. Everything needs to be rewritten urgently, as is customary in the new company and urgently.
4) Local engineers hate you. They still cannot understand how the company could pay N-millions for your crap, and they are refused to raise the pay and bonuses by a couple of hundred. Do not think that you will quickly and easily find a common language with them.
5) Your previous brand is not completely associated with the image of a new company. Therefore, you need to attach to the existing backward product, which has everything in its image. Only almost no one uses it.
6) In order to release a new release, you will now need to get a bunch of permissions. New leadership, leadership of your leadership, lawyers, security guards, marketers, etc. None of them really understand what you are doing and will delay the release, just not wanting to understand a new product for them.
You can relax and forget about new features in the product, experiments, releases once a month. Your “unlucky” competitors who have not bought have dramatically increased the pace and bypass you as standing still.
Sooner or later, your products will be closed and you will work on the right and necessary projects in the company.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/191302/
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