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Well now that he has a graph pointing up and to the right he can certainly raise money and collect developers as if they were Pokemon and play games with the va
by recuter 14y ago
Well now that he has a graph pointing up and to the right he can certainly raise money and collect developers as if they were Pokemon and play games with the valuation in the hopes that somebody Acquihires Newsblur or buys them for some opaque strategic reasons.
Maybe Google will buy them! :)
Edit: I kid, but that's actually a possibility in my mind and would be an ironic outcome. Maybe Facebook or Yahoo or somesuch will see the value of having the New Reader. Selfishly, I am hoping for something else.
- rdl 14y agoIMO the best acquirer would be someone who wanted credibility among high-end technical users or journalists, not someone who wanted to turn it into a mass-market thing. If I were Palantir, I'd probably drop $250k/yr to run the World's Best RSS Reader for the kind of research analysts who become Palantir customers, and the kind of geeks who make awesome Palantir employees. There are maybe a hundred companies you could substitute for Palantir here. Seriously ironic that both of the likely Reader successors are YC funded (Feedly and Newsblur)
- thefuturewasnow 14y agoit would be better if Clay keeps it and doesn't sell it. read earlier comment regarding one employee and little overhead. kudos to open sourcing the project and being able to support it. i'm pitching in even if it doesn't become my new go-to rss reader.