# How to Not Get Acquired - Allen Pike

<https://allenpike.com/2025/how-not-to-get-acquired>

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- Saved: November 2, 2025 (2025-11-03T02:14:31Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

There are a million posts on how to get acquired — I love that Pike wrote about how to **not** get acquired.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT332: Weekly Thing 332 / Compute, Avatar, Cryptography](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/332/), Briefly

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