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Am I weird for thinking it didn't need to go anywhere?
by CivBase 7y ago
Am I weird for thinking it didn't need to go anywhere?
- duxup 7y agoMy understanding was that financially they were not going to last long doing what they were doing.
- ThrowawayR2 7y agoThat raises the question of how GitHub/Microsoft plan to profit off the acquisition though? It can't be just for goodwill or marketing.
- dpacmittal 7y agoThey own the ecosystem, they can leverage it in a lot of ways. And cost of running npm is drop in the ocean for a giant like MS.
- ecnahc515 7y agoThese companies don't need to profit off of acquisitions. If they're going to, it doesn't have to be direct either, it can be a method of growing their sales funnel if nothing else, or even just acquiring talent.
- roguecoder 7y agoThere's a difference between "not going to last long" and "not going to return 10x to their investors". This seems like another example of the faustian bargain of taking VC money.
- duxup 7y agoWere they returning any amount of return?
- mastax 7y agoCouldn't be subsidized by VC money forever.
- tln 7y agoMaybe it needed to go somewhere to pay bills, or provide upside to the options holders.
- swyx 7y agoit was default going out of business so yes this saved it from death