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Fair enough but what do you think about folks like Heroku that have stuck around for years post acquisition?
by csmajorfive 13y ago
Fair enough but what do you think about folks like Heroku that have stuck around for years post acquisition?
- aclimatt 13y agoIt's not that a service can't stick around post-acquisition, it's that in any company, you can have sweeping changes on the turn of a dime. One large senior management change and entire departments can get shut down or reorganized within a week. I've seen a $1B public company start winding down a massive revenue-making division within the course of a conference call. Parse is a great service; I certainly hope Facebook doesn't do that and don't imagine they will any time soon, but nothing is impossible. EDIT: And though you certainly know Facebook's internals better than we do, as an outsider, the risk of an acquired department shutting down is a lot higher if there's a potential to not part of the core business strategy.