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why not negotiate better terms with one of the offers for 51%? Surely, if an entity was interested enough to want 51% there might be terms where something more favorable to the founders could exist, no?

We attempted to negotiate with all three, but all three were completely unwilling to budge on the need to control. The weather corporation was likely not thinking as an investor, but more as a talent acquisition/bolt-on to their operation. The other two were veteran CEO's who both said (as if they were reading out of the same playbook) "I don't do anything I can't control."




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