Yeah. The original founders didn't fail. They made out like bandits. Yahoo bought it and allowed it to wither on the vine and fall in value until someone else

Yeah. The original founders didn't fail. They made out like bandits. Yahoo bought it and allowed it to wither on the vine and fall in value until someone else thought they could make a go of it for a bargain basement price. Something they have a long track record of having done. (I bet they lost way way more on their acquisition and later sale of Flickr that they did with Delicious.) Here's the whole Delicious story, in two blogposts... https://idlewords.com/2009/06/seeking_testers_for_a_bookmarking_site.htm https://idlewords.com/2009/06/seeking_testers_for_a_bookmark... https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...