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SoftLayer is in Dallas because The Planet, a company dating back to the late 90s, was in Dallas and SL was founded by TP's stupidly-fired COO Lance Crosby. SL
by nknighthb 13y ago
SoftLayer is in Dallas because The Planet, a company dating back to the late 90s, was in Dallas and SL was founded by TP's stupidly-fired COO Lance Crosby.
SL ultimately merged with/took over TP after TP had merged with EV1 (another company dating to the late 90s), Crosby continuing as CEO.
None of these were startups in the ordinary Silicon Valley sense. They were, fundamentally, managed datacenters (something their geographical location was well-suited for). The companies were built to survive and turn a profit, not achieve a massive exit in the startup lottery.
- levosmetalo 13y agoYou say that as like turning a profit is a bad thing. Are only lottery exit aspires allowed to call themselves startups?
- nknighthb 13y ago> You say that as like turning a profit is a bad thing. This claim has no basis in any reality I am familiar with.
- darkandbrooding 13y agoTone is difficult to convey via the written word, and there is a tendency for the mind to supply it when reading. Read the parent paragraph aloud, and play with the inflection of key words. Your initial tonal interpretation was one of many possibilities.
- lttlrck 13y agoIt's almost as if you replied to the wrong comment.
- chc 13y agoThe term "startup" does have the connotation of aspiring to high levels of growth rather than steady, possibly mediocre profitability.
- lmickh 13y agoCurious, what is the term for a new business that looks to establish steady long-term profitability instead of the grow and cashout model? Knowing would make googling for the profit focused version of HN much easier.