"We're not for sale" often translates to "Our price is much higher than (we think) you will ever offer or can afford".

If the offer was e.g. $500M cash, "we're not for sale" would simply become "sale".

I'm not a very materialistic person. All my possessions can fit in to one room and I've never even owned a car. What difference does it make if it's 50 M or 500 M? I wouldn't spend it all. It would obviously be a team decision (and if a family/friend emergency came up that would change things), but my answer would be "No". This could change in the _long term_ if we want to move on to different projects.

You don't have to believe me, just know that money does not equal happiness and in my humble opinion success is the amount of life you control.

You can control a whole lot of life with 500M. 50M for that matter. I'm not saying you're wrong, but having that kind of money in the bank opens up a lot of possibilities. You don't suddenly have to become materialistic just because you could.

I'm honestly not trying to be rude by saying this, but it's hard to believe that your ultimate goal in life is to sell tickets to people. If it is, more power to you, seriously, but isn't there something else you want? Something that TicketStumbler is a means to achieve later?

Sure. It isn't but you have to give up time at the acquiree 99% of the time. My "ultimate goal" has nothing to do with tickets.

I'm curious... what is your ultimate goal?

I think it would be great to work with founders who are also hackers and love what they do. But if I were an investor I'd be rather concerned with the notion of passing a $500M offer for an investment of $15k and a couple of years.

Dividends, baby.

PG and Co. are already aware of all of this.

Everything is for sale. The only question is price.

Not true. We both value disposable time and not having bosses more than money.

If you get acquired you almost always have to stay on for 2-5 years.

So your price includes the perks of working for yourself. For example, you would take a deal that included enough cash & stock with no work requirement / vesting.

I'd think about it, but those things don't happen 99% of the time. I'm always willing to listen.

Having worked in M&A / financial due diligence before this, acquisitions are like an anal probe; they're never clean, simple or quick. They're sloppy, tedious and unpleasant. It's sort of similar to raising money in a sense that it's very possible that real work is put on hold for months. Ugh.

And the other thing is, I'm just a big fan of events and helping people have fun. When people tell me they used TicketStumbler and had a great time at X concert or Y hockey game, or a Dad comments how he took his son to his first baseball game, that means more to me than any dollar amount.