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I wonder what it was like working for them.
by UltraSane 6mo ago
I wonder what it was like working for them.
- paradoxyl 6mo agoas I recall, they hired writers and freelancers who put together broad articles that got pointed too when you asked a question, instead of trying to answer questions individually... but my memory could be off, that was 20 years ago.
- bsimpson 6mo agoI only know them as a consumer, but IAC is truly one of the most scourge-of-the-earth companies. They're retreating to publish People Magazine now, but they monopolized concert tickets as Ticketmaster, and online dating as a rollup of every mainstream app in the last 20y. They also bought CollegeHumor and drove it into the ground/irrelevance. They're a terrible company. It's no surprise that AskJeeves failed, but society is better for it.
- IG_Semmelweiss 6mo agoi believe they also bought vimeo and livestream.com, and proceeded to miss the boat where Youtube took off.
- bonzini 6mo agoVimeo was bought by Bending Spoons. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197302
- dchest 6mo agoThat was after IAC: "Additional acquisitions in 2006 included ShoeBuy.com,[46] which the company later sold to Jet,[47] and Connected Ventures including CollegeHumor and Vimeo".
- bsimpson 6mo agoVimeo was part of CollegeHumor.
- UltraSane 6mo agoIt takes some real skill to destroy a site with as much talent as CollegeHumor had