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Rapportive (YC S10) Has Been Acquired By LinkedIn
- shrikant 15y agoPrevious discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3563828 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3563828 edit: Admittedly, the tense of the headline was different.
- jedc 15y agoCongratulations, Rahul, Martin, and Sam! This is great news. :)
- bvi 15y agoCongrats Rahul, Martin! I've always been impressed by your quick responses to any issues via email. What are your next steps?
- rahulvohra 15y agoMake you brilliant with people — as simple as ;)
- diego 15y agoWelcome to LinkedIn guys! Looking forward to meeting in person.
- rahulvohra 15y agothanks Diego! looking forward to it, to put it mildly :)
- lukejduncan 15y agoI double the welcome! Love the product and glad to have you as part of the team
- rahulvohra 15y agoHello Luke, and thank you! Can't wait to be there :)
- pspeter3 15y agoWill Rapportive to continue to operate separately or become a specifically LinkedIn product?
- rahulvohra 15y agoNot sure I understand what you mean by the difference?
- geuis 15y agoOften acquisitions are done for talent more than product. Other times its because the company being acquired fills out a need for the parent company that they can't or don't want to fill internally. i.e. Why spend resources developing a competing product internally when you can add another company that does it better. So its a legitimate question that deserves an answer to Rapportive customers.
- rcfox 15y agoI think he means: Will we have to create a LinkedIn account to continue to use Rapportive? Personally, I have no intention of doing that, and I will miss your functionality.
- dtran 15y agoCongrats Rahul, Martin, Sam and team! Do your Rapportive profiles reflect this news? ;)
- jnovek 15y agoRapporative is such a fundamental part of how I get work done that I often forget that it isn't just part of GMail. While I am really excited that these guys had an exit -- founders who make really great products deserve to get paid -- I hope that this doesn't mean that Rapporative will eventually be shut down or merged with LinkedIn in some horrible way that removes it from my inbox. I'm not sure if I can keep people straight without it.
- villagefool 15y agoCare to share how you use Rapportive to get work done?
- jnovek 15y agoWhen I go to startup events I frequently encounter people who know me that I can't remember ever meeting. When that happens, if my wife is with me she will discreetly remind me, "She's the technical founder of such-and-such." You see, I'm terrible with both faces AND names. Rapporative does the same thing, but in my inbox.
- gsiener 15y agoIt's also great for figuring out someone's email address. Open up a new draft and start typing iterations (e.g., first.last@domain.com, first@domain, etc.). You'll know you've reached the right email when a profile pops up.
- verelo 15y agoCongrats, this is a great tool which has often surprised me with the results it comes up with. I'm very envious of your success. Looking forward to running into you guys one day, like you said, its a small world.
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- markbao 15y agoThank goodness it's going to continue to exist!
- bostonvaulter2 15y agoBut will it continue to be updated?
- blackRust 15y agoCongratulations to Rahul, Martin, Sam and all the others. As expressed by others I hope Rapportive continues independently in terms of account creation. I really liked when Conrad from the support them explained an issue I had regarding merged accounts by providing the following graph, I did mention that I was a CS Major (hope the spacing lines up): email1@gmail.com (user, merged) <--. | \ `-> email2@anotherdomain.tld (user, merged) \ | | `-> email3@domainexample.tld (user, merged) | `-> email4@finaldomain.tld (user) | |`-> alias1@finaldomain.tld | |`-> alias2@finaldomain.tld | `-> alias3@finaldomain.tld
- intellection 15y agoSmart tree design. Good character choices for branches. First time I remember seeing that style. Now I wanna read more text-tree graphing everywhere.
- dools 15y agoman tree :)
- benwerd 15y agoVery cool. Rapportive is a great product. Well done to the team for a well-deserved acquisition.
- davidedicillo 15y agoCongrats! It's a great product and Rahul is a really smart guy (as I'm sure the rest of the team is)
- lawrence 15y agoI find myself talking about Rapportive a lot as one of the better executed examples of the contextual delivery of relevant content. Glad these pioneers got rewarded for their work.
- RichardPrice 15y agoRahul, Martin, Conrad, and others, Many Congrats! Rapportive is a really great product.
- keeptrying 15y agoThis is probably the sweet spot exit that most entrepreneurs dream of ... $1 million raised, 2 years of work and $15 million cash exit. The founders have obviously done very well in this exit. Great story. Great product. Well done!
- joshu 15y ago+ n years of lockup.
- keeptrying 15y agoIts cash.
- joshu 15y agoSo what? You can have a cash payout that takes time.
- prbuckley 15y agoNice work guys! Congratulations.
- csallen 15y agoCongrats guys!
- gsp29 15y agoCongrats to Rapportive!
- gsp29 15y agoCongrats to Rapportive!
- mikeburrelljr 15y agoGreat product! I happened to install it over the weekend, and am a believer.