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They were bought in 1998 and managed to keep their unique way of doing things for 20 years afterwards? Sounds like the founders negotiated a seriously good outcome.

I really don't understand how you can call anyone a sellout with a spectacular outcome like that. Most acquisitions go like "nothing will change, pinky promise!" and then 6 weeks later "oh btw we're discontinuing $WHY_YOU_LOVED_US".




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