This is an interesting claim and I can't decide if it's true.
On the one hand, of the set of people working on companies which get acquired by FANG, I would bet a lot of money that less than 1/4 are founders. Even if the vast majority of them were acqui-hires with only founders, it just takes a few mid-sized acquisitions to tilt things back toward more non-founders.
On the other hand, P(FANG acquisition | founding a company) might be higher than P(FANG acquisition | taking a dev job ~someplace~). Ie there are a lot of small companies out there who'd like to hire you but aren't high-growth high-tech startups with a shot at the outcome you want.
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