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> It has been a long and fun journey. Using the word "journey" is this context is rather... risky. https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com https://ourincredib
by hackthisbird 10y ago
> It has been a long and fun journey.
Using the word "journey" is this context is rather... risky.
https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
- dabeeeenster 10y agoTBH it has got to the point now where I just assume people writing these posts are in on the joke and doing it on purpose. At least, I hope that's whats happening.
- Kiro 10y agoWhy? What's the problem with calling it what it is? That site smells jealousy.
- Veen 10y agoWhy are you so intent on telling everyone off for criticising what, at the very least, is a unimaginative, cliched, and clumsy way of describing a cash grab.
- Kiro 10y agoBecause it's ridiculous and I'm tired of seeing that site in every acquisition thread.
- Veen 10y agoI guess everyone else is tired of seeing the same old rhetoric every time a company sells — it's great news for the founders and maybe the employees, usually not so great news for the users. There's a podcast called "The Distance"[0] that investigates businesses that have been serving their customers for decades. Those stories are "incredible journeys". Two years of development and marketing ending in an aqui-hire isn't an incredible journey, and it certainly isn't a long journey. Selling to Google is an accomplishment. It's an interesting accomplishment, but the rhetoric of journeys and battles is tedious. These people have an idea, implement and market it well, work hard, and achieve a solid exit. They haven't changed the world, done anything particularly praiseworthy, or struggled very hard compared to the "journeys" of millions of other people. They built a business based on a promise to their users, and then more or less said: "screw you guys, we're off to Google now. Thanks for the journey." Pompous SV bullshit. [0]:https://thedistance.com/ https://thedistance.com/
- nine_k 10y agoWhy, it's usually indeed a journey, with a liquidity event as a destination. Often the the acquisition also means dissolution, so the destination is final.
- Apocryphon 10y agoAnd where does this leave the customers? Simply faceless, nameless trials that the hero-startup must conquer on its way to liquidity?
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- euyyn 10y agoI mean, it's kind of a risk you face when you buy a service from a startup, whether they tell you or not.