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"With great fanfare some big company will announce what awesome synergies are in store now that the youngsters have “access to all the resources they need to ta
by brandall10 15y ago
"With great fanfare some big company will announce what awesome synergies are in store now that the youngsters have “access to all the resources they need to take it to the next level”."
Perhaps this is a bit of an outlier, but this is how the Heroku acquisition was framed and it does seem to actually be working out well, no?
- markerdmann 15y agoHeroku is an impressive example of founders not selling out their users. They had multiple suitors before Salesforce, and any one of those offers would have made them millionaires. They only said "yes", however, when Salesforce agreed to give them not just a mountain of cash but also to let them continue running Heroku as an independent entity. I wish all acquisitions looked more like the Heroku acquisition. I also wish I had a pony... :-)