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I have a hard time understanding how Trello is worth that much money. Does it really cost 1/2 billion to get 19 million users and a Trello like app built? Is t
by agentgt 10y ago
I have a hard time understanding how Trello is worth that much money. Does it really cost 1/2 billion to get 19 million users and a Trello like app built? Is the Trello team really worth that much? Was Trello that threatening to Atlassian? There are a lot of there other successful collaboration SaaS out there as well (e.g. Asana). This is not like social/content services where there can only be one (or very few e.g. instagram, github, whatsapp).
- CptJamesCook 10y agoThink about this from the perspective of a purchase like Google -> Youtube. Google paid $1 billion for Youtube. It's now conservatively worth $50 billion. That means they could have 50 large acquisitions go to zero and still be breakeven on their Youtube deal. You can use the same economics for most deals. (to say nothing about consolidating the large apps in this space -- maybe Asana is next on their list?)
- whatever_dude 10y agoTrello has a lot of vendor-specific integration that is not immediately visible to most users. Their Salesforce integration is huge in terms of user numbers, but it's not something the vast majority of HN users care about, or have even seen. I feel like Trello's focus has been on certain segments, not on the general public. The product, in many ways, has been heavily focused and as simple as possible. It kind of infuriates me I have like 4 chrome extensions installed that augments Trello with very basic features... but I kind of understand their mentality. Kind of the opposite of most Atlassian's products. So this is an... interesting development.