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How much did you pay for the domain, and how was it acquired?

• papercruncher 14y ago
  Clipboard seems to be what Gary Flake left Microsoft for. If he didn't happen to own the domain already, I'm sure he had the resources to acquire it.
  • gwf 14y ago
    I bought it around January of 2011, when I knew I was going to move forward with the concept. It seems kind of tacky to share the amount, but it cost about 5-10x less than what most people guess, as the previous owner was extremely reasonable.
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    • andrewljohnson 14y ago
      What a silly response. It's not a tacky question, and you just don't want to say for understandably selfish reasons. The rest of the world would still like the data point.
      • mustpax 14y ago
        No one has an obligation to tell you about their private financial transactions because you want a "data point."
        • evoltix 14y ago
          Obviously there's no obligation. It was just a smug move to decline to share the price.
    • tuxguy 14y ago
      Amazing effort, @gmf & team. Super impressed & for years i have cribbed there is not a good way to save, with context, really AWESOME & insightful HN comments, for future perusal, archiving & searching. IMHO, it does not seem tacky at all to share the amount, especially as a fellow hn reader explicitly asked to know it. Obviously, you have every right, no to disclose it, for whatever reason.
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