Steve Tuck
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1,075 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 16 Sep
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Yes, it is a lot of uncertainty.
So that was one piece of it.
And I mean, just bluntly, I think you're going to be bought by Dell.
I'm worried you're going to be bought by Dell.
I'm worried you're going to be bought by HP.
I'm worried you're going to be bought by IBM.
I'm worried you're going to be bought by EMC.
And for every one of these, we know all of the stories and we've seen it over and over and over again where companies lose their independence and customers suffer as a result of that.
And I think it was when we were doing the analysis, the financial analysis of like, all right, what does this mean?
It's like, and the person we had doing the analysis was outside of Oxide was like, well, so just so you know, like if you were to raise a Series C, it would make an acquisition much more unlikely, right?
like great that is that is great because we that we that is the objective of this company is not to be acquired it's not to be a because we know what that means um and that's not what we're doing we're a big independent company so um but there was in order to be able to do that though so that was a big reason to do it but we had to be able to do it in the way that i mean we
When you raise this kind of capital, I think there were a lot of questions out there, Adam, about like, what are the VC strings attached?
And that's a good question to ask because like it's, yeah, there are strings attached.
And so what kind of strings are typically attached and how do we avoid those?
The board of directors controls the company, just to be clear.
You report to our board.
That's right.
That ultimately makes the end.
So it's a very big deal.
It's a big deal.
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