If I started a company up, had no investment, then decided to go work at bigco on the understanding I could say they acquired my company, then it's all quite meaningless.
It's just a shame to see so many deadpooled companies and products through acquihires spun as "yay success!".
I think I understand your reasoning but in many of these cases the "success" aspect I believe is that despite the failure/discontinuation of the product/company the investors still saw some kind of return on their investment. Though I don't know what Eric meant by "we took good care of all our investors" exactly, I'd assume they were satisfied with the terms. It's an additional plus that the world benefits by the open sourcing of clutch.io's IP that Twitter wasn't interested in. It sounds like a win-win-win, but that's just my opinion.
A rising tide lifts all boats. We, as workers in this industry, should all be glad that there's now so much hype. There are many important industries that should get more of the community attention, but don't.
If I started a company up, had no investment, then decided to go work at bigco on the understanding I could say they acquired my company, then it's all quite meaningless.
It's just a shame to see so many deadpooled companies and products through acquihires spun as "yay success!".
Maybe I'm just getting old ;)
As I say though, congrats on the new job.