Does this article actually have a specific message?  I read the whole thing and it sounds something like &quot;businesses will exploit you.&quot;  (True, but duh.)  Or maybe &quot;startups are trying to be acquired.&quot;  (Sometimes true, sometimes false.)<p>I&#x27;m not even sure she has a specific meaning for the word &quot;startup,&quot; or that her usage means the same thing that most other people mean by that term.<p>Most people want most things as a means to an end, so it&#x27;s hard for me to see how using product sales&#x2F;adoption as a driver toward being an attractive acquisition is unusual, surprising or crazy; but either way, not every startup wants to be acquired, and not every startup is trying to drive toward that end.  One of the many &quot;facts&quot; in the article that are not facts.