I think I understand your reasoning but in many of these cases the "success" aspect I believe is that despite the failure/discontinuation of the product/company

I think I understand your reasoning but in many of these cases the "success" aspect I believe is that despite the failure/discontinuation of the product/company the investors still saw some kind of return on their investment. Though I don't know what Eric meant by "we took good care of all our investors" exactly, I'd assume they were satisfied with the terms. It's an additional plus that the world benefits by the open sourcing of clutch.io's IP that Twitter wasn't interested in. It sounds like a win-win-win, but that's just my opinion.