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As a Redditor said:

> The standard VC business model is to invest in stuff that FAANG will buy from them one day. The standard approach is to invest in stuff that's enough of a threat to FAANG that they'll buy it to kill it, but this seems more like they're gambling on an acqui-hire in the future.

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ipsum2|9 months ago

I have never seen a FAANG company buy a pure programming-language based tooling startup.

tjalfi|9 months ago

Facebook acquired Monoidics in 2013; they were the startup that created Infer[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infer_Static_Analyzer

guappa|9 months ago

Why would they do that when they can just fork for free?

noisy_boy|9 months ago

They also get a shot at the engineers who wrote the product.