From a certain perspective, the startup complex is and extremely bizarre value creation and destruction machine. You have acquisitions like this funding (in the sense that founders and investors do this in order to achieve an acquisition like this) scores of startups who are creating real value come into being. The "successful" ones that get acquired are actually destroyed. Maybe there is some opaque value (expertise acquisition) passed to the buyer, but overall the value seems to be destroyed.<p>The side effect though is value created via all the other startups that get founded.