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Was FlightCaster acquired mostly because of its user base or because of its technology?

• alnayyir 15y ago
  Prolly for the engineers like everybody else lately.
  • Hisoka 15y ago
    Figures.. their Compete graph shows lack of users, and technology really doesn't sound that complex...
    • rfrey 15y ago
      On the contrary - their tech was extremely complex. There was serious technology risk in FlightCaster. Jason's co-founder Evan is one of those guys who exudes technical brilliance: he gives off geek-pheromones that would make an art history major want to talk algorithms with him for three hours. They needed all of those chops to do what they did. Clarification: they weren't just aggregating and presenting data: they were processing large piles of numbers to predict the friggin' future. And they didn't just curve-fit to do it.