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the system was actually quite a bit larger than they ever talked about. millions of users, etc.

by joshu 16y ago

seldo 16y ago
Now that they're shutting it down, I would love to hear your thoughts as founder on why delicious didn't live up to its potential.
- chunkbot 16y ago
  Delicious lived up to its founders' potential when it was acquired for millions.
  - borism 16y ago
    that's ridiculous. potential of the company is not about who owns the stock or how much cash changed hands in the process. having been part of one particular exit I know all too well that startup founders and ex-employees have deep emotional connection to their former company, no matter how much they got for it.
- verysimple 16y ago
  Just because Yahoo's expectation$ weren't met doesn't mean delicious didn't live up to its potential. Many people got accustomed to use it as a search engine and it fulfilled its purpose quite nicely. Imagine if facebook couldn't figure out a way to make money, would it then be considered a failure even though millions of people find it useful?
  - gaustin 16y ago
    > Imagine if facebook couldn't figure out a way to make money, would it then be considered a failure even though millions of people find it useful? Depends on who you are. To the investors, that would be a failure. To the people that find it useful, it wouldn't be a failure until it disappeared or otherwise ceased to be of use.
- cdr 16y ago
  I've gotten the impression it was pretty badly mismanaged by Yahoo after acquisition. Any failure is squarely on Yahoo's shoulders AFAIK.
- po 16y ago
  Andy Baio was recently on Dan Benjamin's show The Pipeline and he spoke a bit about upcoming.org's acquisition. I believe he described the support he got as underwhelming. Basically you go in, meet with a bunch of groups and then are left by yourself wondering what you're supposed to do. http://5by5.tv/pipeline/31 http://5by5.tv/pipeline/31
sharjeel 16y ago
If Yahoo is actually shutting it down, would you want to buy it back from them?
- scorpion032 16y ago
  He wouldn't want to buy it for a price they acquired it at or more. He can't offer them a price that is lower than that. It wouldn't take that much more effort to build the whole thing all over again, anyway.
  - mfukar 16y ago
    Yahoo is shutting it down, ergo their perceived value is significantly lower to justify that decision..
n00bs 16y ago
By the time that Chris Yeh http://twitter.com/cbyeh http://twitter.com/cbyeh ran Delicious into the ground (and convinced management to nuke it rather than take any blame) the site had far fewer than 1,000,000 active users. Many more had registered but far few had logged in within the past year.

the system was actually quite a bit larger than they ever talked about. millions of users, etc.

by joshu 16y ago

the system was actually quite a bit larger than they ever talked about. millions of users, etc.

seldo 16y ago

Now that they're shutting it down, I would love to hear your thoughts as founder on why delicious didn't live up to its potential.

chunkbot 16y ago
Delicious lived up to its founders' potential when it was acquired for millions.
- borism 16y ago
  that's ridiculous. potential of the company is not about who owns the stock or how much cash changed hands in the process. having been part of one particular exit I know all too well that startup founders and ex-employees have deep emotional connection to their former company, no matter how much they got for it.
verysimple 16y ago
Just because Yahoo's expectation$ weren't met doesn't mean delicious didn't live up to its potential. Many people got accustomed to use it as a search engine and it fulfilled its purpose quite nicely. Imagine if facebook couldn't figure out a way to make money, would it then be considered a failure even though millions of people find it useful?
- gaustin 16y ago
  > Imagine if facebook couldn't figure out a way to make money, would it then be considered a failure even though millions of people find it useful? Depends on who you are. To the investors, that would be a failure. To the people that find it useful, it wouldn't be a failure until it disappeared or otherwise ceased to be of use.
cdr 16y ago
I've gotten the impression it was pretty badly mismanaged by Yahoo after acquisition. Any failure is squarely on Yahoo's shoulders AFAIK.
po 16y ago
Andy Baio was recently on Dan Benjamin's show The Pipeline and he spoke a bit about upcoming.org's acquisition. I believe he described the support he got as underwhelming. Basically you go in, meet with a bunch of groups and then are left by yourself wondering what you're supposed to do. http://5by5.tv/pipeline/31 http://5by5.tv/pipeline/31

sharjeel 16y ago

If Yahoo is actually shutting it down, would you want to buy it back from them?

scorpion032 16y ago
He wouldn't want to buy it for a price they acquired it at or more. He can't offer them a price that is lower than that. It wouldn't take that much more effort to build the whole thing all over again, anyway.
- mfukar 16y ago
  Yahoo is shutting it down, ergo their perceived value is significantly lower to justify that decision..

n00bs 16y ago

By the time that Chris Yeh http://twitter.com/cbyeh http://twitter.com/cbyeh ran Delicious into the ground (and convinced management to nuke it rather than take any blame) the site had far fewer than 1,000,000 active users. Many more had registered but far few had logged in within the past year.