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Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button by hobofan on Thursday June 07, 2018 @02:59AM (#17253841)
Google acquiring Gitlab is very inevitable. GV (which is a Alphabet and not Google subsidiary) always stated that their priority is to be a VC that is as neutral as possible, and should a Google competitor be interested in acquiring a portfolio company they are open to that.

Of course if you have them as an investor they will obviously try to help you with their network which can definately steer a company to a more Google friendly path.

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Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button by dragonwriter on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:01AM (#17253849)
> Google acquiring Gitlab is very inevitable.

From the rest of your post, I think you mean “...very much not inevitable.”

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Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button by hobofan on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:23AM (#17253937)
No.

If the portfolio company wants to be acquired by Google, then taking the network they get via GV certainly makes that route easier for them.

If the portfolio company decides if acquisition by another tech giant is the better route, they are free to do that and GV won't sabotage that deal. AFAIK there have been GV exits to all of the big Google competitiors.

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Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button by quietbritishjim on Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:41AM (#17254286)
> Google acquiring Gitlab is very inevitable

This means "Google is going to acquire GitLab".

> If the portfolio company decides if acquisition by another tech giant is the better route, they are free to do that and GV won't sabotage that deal.

To me, this reads as "Google might not acquire GitLab".

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Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button by hobofan on Thursday June 07, 2018 @10:02AM (#17255801)
Yeah, wow had a brainfart their. I thought about "unavoidable" every time I wrote inevitable.
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Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button by quietbritishjim on Thursday June 07, 2018 @10:10AM (#17255846)
"Google acquiring Gitlab is very unavoidable" would also mean that Google IS going to acquire GitLab!
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Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button by hobofan on Thursday June 07, 2018 @10:14AM (#17255880)
Yeah... I think I should get off HN for the day :D
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Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button by dragonwriter on Thursday June 07, 2018 @08:47AM (#17255261)
Except for the “No”, that whole description is consist with “not very inevitable”.

“Inevitable” means “unavoidable", but what you've described is “possible, and maybe slightly more probable than if it wasn't a GV-backed firm, but by no means guaranteed.”

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