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Looks like too many customers decided they JUST MIGHT HAVE TO GO OVER TO THE AUSTRALIANS! So many that "the Australians" bought the team. This is poetic and thi
by xiaoma 10y ago
Looks like too many customers decided they JUST MIGHT HAVE TO GO OVER TO THE AUSTRALIANS! So many that "the Australians" bought the team. This is poetic and this is why I'm glad blogs often stick around.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/07/20/fruity-treats-customization-and-supersonics-fogbugz-7-is-here/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/07/20/fruity-treats-cust...
- krallja 10y agoFogBugz is still wholly owned and operated by Fog Creek Software. Joel is the CEO of Stack Overflow, and does not work for Trello (nor Atlassian).
- xiaoma 10y agoThat essay was written about 5 years before Trello was spun out of Fog Creek. You can see Joel in the photo on the WSJ article covering that story: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/07/24/digital-whiteboard-trello-spins-out-of-fog-creek-with-10-3m/ http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/07/24/digital-white... To connect the dots, it's overwhelmingly likely that Atlassian was in fact "the Australians" referred to and Atlassian's tremendous growth (which was foreshadowed in Joel's piece) is why they could by Trello 7 years later. It's interesting to look at in JOS in retrospect because he literally blogged the birth of company A, its competition with company B and it's spin-off C, which B later bought.
- emmelaich 10y agoThanks for this; I knew it from memory but web searched without success.