How to build a startup that get acquired?

1. Don’t plan on being acquired from the start
2. Build a company to run for life

If you get acquired, then that’s great and fine and might work for you, but look at the greatest: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, they didn’t get acquired, they acquired. Then of course there’s Musk and Hoffman, that exited x.com and PayPal and started LinkedIn and Tesla, SpaceX. But I bet you, they didn’t start with reading an article on how to build a startup that gets acquired.