No. Acquiring parties sell themselves to acquisition targets (and even clients and suppliers) in ways that don’t clearly turn out the way the acquiring parties represented themselves. That said, anyone who has been in this game long enough — but most haven’t been — know that the founders sellIng generally end up losing control of, and even influence over, their proverbial baby.

But I’ve never trusted Facebook and its founders. But for a few billion dollars, who wouldn’t be suspending a disbelief in Facebook’s trustworthiness.