Matt Williams: Most acquired founders leave within three years; he stayed twelve
Matt Williams · FF 006: Acquired by Amazon, CEO @ Digg, EIR @ a16z and now Founder @ Pro.com with Matt Williams · Jul 31, 2015 · at 13:21
Matt Williams, founder of LiveBid and Pro.com, reflects on post-acquisition founder retention and his own 12-year tenure at Amazon.
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“Very few founders ever kind of last longer than two or three years at most startups that get, then get acquired. I, you know, I think there's, there are very few, I happen to be one of the rare, you know, kind of rare ones that I was at Amazon for about 12 years after being acquired.”
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