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I mean, at the least, can't you make it a deal that you're OK walking away from if you find yourself in this kind of situation?
Sure, you could sell the biz outright and wash your hands of the whole thing once the check clears.
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Business or personal? It's doable but it's a lot of money to buy all those drives.
$6k for 600T fully assembled backblaze storage pod: https://www.backuppods.com (no affiliation, just pointing out that ~$12k isn't a massive amount).
1000TB / 8TB = 125 HDDs
125 * $200 = $25k
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The "because I say so" argument isn't very compelling. I probably agree with your conclusion, but the argument is lazy.
Cool. I'm sorry you couldn't be bothered to read the whole thread and jumped to the end just to criticize instead of providing reasons, but whatever.
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Any viable competitor will necessarily have the resources to strike a similar deal. I think your argument boils down to "is unfair that Facebook has more resources than a competing startup", which is no truer without NN (in my mind, anyway).
Facebook competitor may be unlikely, but newspapers striking local deals with Facebook vs. newspapers which don't, is likely. It's a huge, huge fallacy to claim "this thing would happen regardless, so who cares how difficult we make it for it to happen". Your mind is wrong. I'm proud of India for rejecting Zuckerberg's ploy, and I wish Peru was wise enough to do the same.
If you're a founder and looking to sell your company, is there anything you can do to guard yourself against these kinds of situations? I imagine it might be some particular part of a golden handcuff / golden parachute deal, but making it work for everyone involved sounds super hard...
Everyone is saying no. I'm going to speculate in opposite in case someone qualified reads the comment to tell us if it makes any sense. :) My idea is to, either as terms of the sale or in a contract with a 3rd party, guarantee the company will continue doing a specific thing. If it's a contract, the company should be able to do with without much cost and get benefit in return for consideration. After the sale, they'r…
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Step 1: Hack into a supercomputing center with at least 1Gbps line. Step 2: Massively-parallel downloading of all the sites using clustered nodes, compression of it, and resulting data stored into high-performance, clustered filesystem. Step 3: Move it off of there when traffic is low or overnight if system doesn't go offline overnight.
Step 0: Acquire at least ~1PB of storage to store all the data.
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Everyone is saying no. I'm going to speculate in opposite in case someone qualified reads the comment to tell us if it makes any sense. :) My idea is to, either as terms of the sale or in a contract with a 3rd party, guarantee the company will continue doing a specific thing. If it's a contract, the company should be able to do with without much cost and get benefit in return for consideration. After the sale, they'r…
So, you would sue the company you just sold, using the proceeds of the sale to pay attorneys?
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Facebook competitor may be unlikely, but newspapers striking local deals with Facebook vs. newspapers which don't, is likely. It's a huge, huge fallacy to claim "this thing would happen regardless, so who cares how difficult we make it for it to happen". Your mind is wrong. I'm proud of India for rejecting Zuckerberg's ploy, and I wish Peru was wise enough to do the same.
I don't think I made any such fallacy. I'm simply not convinced by your claim that NN favors competition. In particular, you seem to think Facebook can strike a deal for free with ISPs in a way that a competitor could not. Obviously such a deal is available to both the incumbent and the Challenger, but it's more likely that the incumbent will have the resources to afford it. In this sense, it's merely a matter of res…