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And what's the disposition of SocialText? A key detail the author of this story would be wise to include.
by davidu 11y ago
And what's the disposition of SocialText? A key detail the author of this story would be wise to include.
- kzhahou 11y agoAfter extensive research, I uncovered key details about SocialText at the following website http://www.socialtext.com/ http://www.socialtext.com/
- davidu 11y agoYour sarcasm isn't appreciated. I want to know why the founders left their company, and are creating a new company that is in a related space. Why didn't they just do it as a part of SocialText? And what should the current SocialText employees think about their founders leaving and basically starting over, with a fresh cap table, while they try to make something of value with the remains of a founder-less company?
- kzhahou 11y agoThose are all fine questions, but your original was just "what happened to ST?", which begged for an lmgtfy :-) Myself, I wouldn't suspect any particularly interesting backstory here. ST was founded thirteen years ago (!), and Ross left a while ago.
- rossmayfield 11y agodavidu, I'm the founding CEO of both Socialtext and Pingpad. Socialtext was sold in 2012 to an HR software company and continues to operate. At the time I was on the board, but had moved on to SlideShare. Pingpad is a very different company, a social productivity app with a consumer freemium business model.