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Browsing Wikipedia briefly, Techcrunch has been owned by AOL since 2010; AOL was acquired by Verizon in 2015; Yahoo! was purchased by Verizon in 2016; AOL was m
by coldpie 6y ago
Browsing Wikipedia briefly, Techcrunch has been owned by AOL since 2010; AOL was acquired by Verizon in 2015; Yahoo! was purchased by Verizon in 2016; AOL was merged with Yahoo! to become Oath in 2016, and I believe all of the above mentioned subdivisions are now circling Verizon's toilet. They're just trying to find ways to monetize before the flush happens. If you're going to die anyway, why not make a few bucks selling out your users?
Acquisitions are bad, folks.
- scarface74 6y agoAcquisitions are bad, folks Only two YCombinator companies have ever gone public. The rest of the companies “exited” by either dying or being acquired. I doubt many of them are chugging along as profitable “lifestyle business” without having a goal of being acquired.
- billme 6y agoCurious, which two YC companies went public?
- scarface74 6y agoDropbox and PagerDuty.
- reducesuffering 6y agoDropbox ($DBX) and PagerDuty ($PD)
- dboreham 6y agoExcept YouTube.