Harder to acquire, not impossible. And nothing I outlined the prevention of a huge capital outlay. Uber and Lyft could be entirely congruent with my statement, they aren't looking to get acquired (at least it doesn't appear to look like it).

There are clearly startups whose sole purpose is to appear to threaten an incumbent and then get purchased by either the incumbent or a rising competitor. Those startups are never design to operate in the long term or on their own. They might force small movements by the entrenched corps, but they don't transform industries.