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Worth re-reading Marco Arment's blog post about selling Instapaper 3 years ago: https://marco.org/2013/04/25/instapaper-next-generation https://marco.org/2013/0
by bishnu 10y ago
Worth re-reading Marco Arment's blog post about selling Instapaper 3 years ago:
https://marco.org/2013/04/25/instapaper-next-generation https://marco.org/2013/04/25/instapaper-next-generation
"Instapaper needs a new home where it can be staffed and grown, but I didn’t want to give it to a big company that would probably just shut it down in six months."
Oof.
- nuclear_eclipse 10y agoIn all fairness, it's been many times longer than six months.
- jonny_eh 10y agoIt wasn't shut down, it was sold to a big company. The six month clock starts now!
- TillE 10y agoHe "sold a majority stake", which means he still owned part of Instapaper. I assume Pinterest bought the whole thing and therefore gave Marco a large chunk of money? Nice for him.
- hkmurakami 10y agoThe value could have been less than what Marco sold it for originally.
- ihuman 10y agoEven in 2016 Marco is still selling things. Never change Marco, never change.