Is it possible the project has few employees and little revenue precisely because they don’t want a massive exit? Or is it possible they declined his request not because they’re chasing growth-at-all-costs and instead because they thought of this random LinkedIn message as simply another distraction from a developer who (statistically for random reach outs) might have wasted their time long term? Even if you fund it, it still might not be worth it for the developers, might be a distraction for their roadmap, might be a low value feature, random-LinkedIn-man may withdraw funding in the future or be a nightmare to work with… seems like there are more possible reasons he got a no than just “they’re obsessed with an exit.”
I’m open to being wrong here, but I see a guy who is mad that a startup declined his feature request.