Exiting a company as soon as you can after a talent acquisition to go on and become an entrepreneur again is very very very common. Most recently I can think of Arrington, Levchin, Nguyen.
I would even guess that the majority of founders who are acquired by Google, Yahoo etc. leave in the first 12 months.
It is either to get the first run on the board, or to give a startup that would otherwise fail a graceful exit - but these people are entrepreneurs and do not fit into large companies.
Sean Parker should be asking what is Facebook doing to attract these types of people, not bitch about these people not wanting to join and blaming free-market funding, of all things.
> I would even guess that the majority of founders who are acquired by Google, Yahoo etc. leave in the first 12 months.
That is absolutely not the case.
You often don't even hear about most Google acquisitions, or you don't know what they were even working on until they get released as Google Egg Timer or something. And even after vesting a lot of acquired employees still stick around. Some of them have families by then.
Yahoo tries hard to make them quit in disgust, but even they hang on to founders longer than that.
I would even guess that the majority of founders who are acquired by Google, Yahoo etc. leave in the first 12 months.
It is either to get the first run on the board, or to give a startup that would otherwise fail a graceful exit - but these people are entrepreneurs and do not fit into large companies.
Sean Parker should be asking what is Facebook doing to attract these types of people, not bitch about these people not wanting to join and blaming free-market funding, of all things.