| ▲ | Ajunne 4 hours ago |
| I love how they always make it sound like this is by choice. "VoidZero is joining Cloudflare" As if they chose to do that. Yes, they agreed to it, but in the end it was just a huge financial transaction. But i guess "Cloudflare buys VoidZero" just sounds less friendly. Even though that is exactly what happened. |
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| ▲ | Aurornis 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > As if they chose to do that. Yes, they agreed to it, That is the definition of making a choice. This is some incredible mental backflipping to suggest that their choice wasn’t their choice. |
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| ▲ | CapsAdmin 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Just to steelman the GP; some people in the company made a choice while the rest had no say. I personally think the owners should get to decide, but it's an interesting duality. (assuming it's not like everyone has a share or something, in which case they would've all had to agree I guess) | | |
| ▲ | Aurornis 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > I personally think the owners should get to decide, but it's an interesting duality. The owners of a business get to decide what to do with their business. > (assuming it's not like everyone has a share or something, in which case they would've all had to agree I guess) Unanimous agreement among shareholders is not necessary to sell a company. The employees might have had some shares in the company, but not all share classes have equal voting rights. It’s also unlikely that employees in aggregate would have had enough shares to override everyone else anyway. Once shares are split among investors, founders, and employees the individual ownership of any one person or group becomes small. I wouldn’t assume that the employees wanted to avoid acquisition. They likely benefited significantly from their shares being acquired and their new compensation packages. Imagining that the employees resisted this is projecting some other story on to them | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That is what being employed means, otherwise own the business. | |
| ▲ | hobofan 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If you join an company with next to no monetizable business model like this, you already have made your choice that you are fine with acquisition when you joined, or have deferred your choice to make a stay/leave decision until the acquisition. | |
| ▲ | weird-eye-issue 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > I personally think the owners should get to decide Wow. Bold opinion. The owners of a company get to decide what to do with it? |
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| ▲ | esskay 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Evan and the rest of the VoidZero team continue to lead Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+. Explain how thats not a clear indication of this being a choice and something they agreed to. |
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| ▲ | TheAlexLichter 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 1) The blog post mentions "acquisition" multiple times.
2) VoidZero joins Cloudflare is still correct. Nobody forced anyone to accept a deal and do so |
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| ▲ | pjmlp 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yes, people love to blame the Microsoft's, Google's, Apple's and co. However the poor guys also have to legally accept being bought. Lets not pretend they aren't putting money into the bank. |
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| ▲ | nkohari 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It is by choice, though? VoidZero was well-capitalized and could easily have continued to raise money for the foreseeable. |
