Comment by belmont_sup
3 months ago
As a Redditor said:
> The standard VC business model is to invest in stuff that FAANG will buy from them one day. The standard approach is to invest in stuff that's enough of a threat to FAANG that they'll buy it to kill it, but this seems more like they're gambling on an acqui-hire in the future.
I have never seen a FAANG company buy a pure programming-language based tooling startup.
Facebook acquired Monoidics in 2013; they were the startup that created Infer[0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infer_Static_Analyzer
Why would they do that when they can just fork for free?
They also get a shot at the engineers who wrote the product.