(Note that I'm not parent) Let's try to read that a bit more positively. Their trajectory was incredible impressive and really a little bit a wtf. They managed

(Note that I'm not parent) Let's try to read that a bit more positively. Their trajectory was incredible impressive and really a little bit a wtf. They managed to create a product in a category everyone thought to be conquered by Wordpress and the Medium-of-the-time SV project, pivoted that from clearly a blog to something clearly more commercial. All while using a programming environment that was pretty obviously the wrong choice for the project plus starting with a severely feature-limited system. And even asking more for hosting than seemed remotely reasonable (unsure that this was true or just an impression back then, current pricing looks reasonable, but that might be a changed perspective). Having worked on two blog engines at that time I can completely relate to the jealousness, without having applied :)