Happens all the time and doesn't mean anyone got screwed. A couple years ago Lacework sold to Fortinet for around $200m. That sounds like a nice exit for everyone, right? But this was after they'd raised $1.8b at a valuation north of $8b, which, ouch. When founders and employees fail this completely, yeah, their equity is going to zero.
Of course there are other cases where people do get genuinely screwed. My point is only that the cash value of an exit, even when it's a big number like $350m, doesn't tell you much.
It would have confused the Iranians as the regime would then claim that the foreign military attacks prove that the protests are artificially engineered by the same foreign enemy with the support of the Shah. It would also mean the automatic imposition of martial law in Iran, thus making protests even more difficult to organise.
You jest but I was flabbergasted when doing some AI backed feature that the fix was adding a "The result you send back MUST be accurate." to the already pretty clear prompt.
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