At my first company, I internalized the standard advice to never think about M&A. The consensus was, and is, to just keep growing the business and good things will come. I did that, and I was lucky that good things did come in the form of a $130M acquisition that was mostly good news for the founders and employees, and pretty-solid-given-the-reality news for our investors.Having lived it, and having close friends who’ve lived it, I think the usual advice does founders a disservice. People often ...